write an essay about the question wheter the disadvantages of strong typing can all be eliminated with genericity (as in parameterized types). don't hand it in unless you can provide an answer to the question.

william shatner thinks the french term for 'to the contrary' is spelled 'oh contrare'.

the question is not hard rail or sof rail, the question is how we can both do away and get away without any rails whatsoever.

the trouble of learning foo may seem tedious at first, but think of harnessing the expressive powers of pseudo-foo!

Paul Boutin says in wired: p2p 'grand theft audio' is dead—long live the sneakernet! Excerpt:

A free utility called iPod2iTunes makes cloning my friends’ iPods a plug-and-play operation. ... If the Slashdot.org zealots really want information to be free, they should stop beta testing the latest Linux-powered, all-XML version of GPLster and build a poor man’s iPod instead. With open source software and a $99 drive from Fry’s, Sneakernet 2.0 would be a lot tougher to kill than Napster was.

"no," he said to his boss, "i don't want to view porn sites at work and i don't plan to do so. but if you want me to use that other browser, they're bound to pop up on their own sooner or later. and when that happens and someone notices the connections in the firewall logs, i don't want you to tell me i'm not allowed to view porn sites at work."

she looked at him the way she would have looked at her little son if he had told her that aliens force him to undress in public every time she makes him wear long johns. "marcus, are you currently under mental treatment?"

the percentage of necrophiles is quite high among morticians. what do you mean, my "videogame mentality regarding problem solving"?

working out home alone to get in better shape before going to the gym is like tidying your flat before the cleaning lady comes.