“The other problem is redundancy isn't a bug, it's a feature.”

“...there's an inverse relationship between frequency and information content...It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the word in a sentence if the remaining 20% are the most important for understanding its meaning”

“A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.”

“Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes your the bug.”

“Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.”

“Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?”

“The unhealthiness of Dependistan underlines the real problem with the modern welfare state: it's not that it's a waste of money but that it's a waste of people.”