As a language, R is like French; it has an elegant core, but every rule comes with a set of ad-hoc exceptions that directly contradict it.

Encore un effort, citoyens de l’Europe, et vous serez européens!

People think it’s all about misery and desperation and death and all that shit which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. After all, we’re not fucking stupid. At least, we’re not that fucking stupid.

Als g’u kunt verbeteren, moet ge dat doen.

Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity.