Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.