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

This result is too beautiful to be false; it is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.

This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers.

Why did we spend years and years on the silly discussion of whether chess is an art, a sport or a science? Why dit it take us so long to discover that it’s a way of life?

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.