“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.

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.

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.