“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.”

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

“When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization. The rush is mad indeed, because it leads into a trap from which there is no escape. A feature which is omitted can always be added later, when its design and its implications are well understood. A feature which is included before it is fully understood can never be removed later.”

“Kittens, lay back. You are about to get Wallbanged.”

“But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.”