Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

A hedge fund in possession of a vast pile of finance will eventually start pursuing risky strategies when markets look too boring for too long.

The essence of mathematics lies entirely in its freedom.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

The only real difficulties in programming are cache invalidation and naming things.