"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process."
   - Mark Twain

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
   - Mark Twain

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
   - William James

"Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight."
   - Neal Stephenson

"I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, 'How do you know what the future is going to be like?' And I'd always say, 'I don't.'"
   - William Gibson

"Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either."
   - Neil Gaiman

"How To Compile JNI DLL Using GCC Under Cygwin With MinGW Tools and SWIG", link
   - Me

"Latest Ruby plus Hanami on Dreamhost", link
   - Me