OCaml’s big selling point is its “type system,” which is something like Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, except that instead of just putting a squiggly green line underneath code it thinks is wrong, it won’t let you run it.

I met him 10 years ago in a hallway in Harrisburg and departed with the image of a man whose psyche approximated a badly overwound clock: Everything is tight and in place, but nothing's moving.

“If M.P.s,” declared the new political commentatrix, “can’t find anything else except Debbery for question time, then the nation is in a bad way.”

When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame, thou must be fain to cast them out.