you have to cast your ballot if you want to vote for anarchy. not voting is voting for the exact opposite.

as he cleared his throat, she looked at him interestedly. he opened his mouth as if to speak, but the hand holding his glass began to tremble and his lips clutched at the straw. in his imagination, he quaffed concentrated self-esteem. he put down his drink, wiped his sweaty hands at his trousers and adjusted his specs. "do you ...", he started without knowing where this sentence would lead to. "do you like ..." her smile failed to encourage him as intended and his thoughts were still orbiting the void. "do you like inflationary universes with positive spatial curvature?"

"separators? you should change that. semicolons as separators are about ten times more prone to error than semicolons as terminators. that's a generally accepted experimental result in programmer psychology."

"doesn't apply to me. i use commas as separators."

while many may not realise what a treat i have for you today, those who were forced to write Pascal programs in school might actually find this interesting: in 1981, Brian W. Kernihan's essay Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language was turned down by the technical journals, but xeroxes circulated widely. especially if you progressed to othe rlanguages after leaning the basics with pascal, you will understand---and might be surprised---that you can't do anything serious in this language. you just never recognised its limitations while you didn't know anything else you could have compared it to. everything seemed just so natural.

we are just animals after all. the minimal differences between our physiology and that of other animals make us different from apes like tomtits are different from chickadees. it's just that this particular difference proved to have dramatic consequences, e.g. a really large impact on nuclear weapons research.

reality is not the only option.

carrie bit her lower lip for a moment, as if to prevent any words that would upset berger even more from leaving her mouth, but then she decided that she didn't care about his emotional status. "i never said you're an idiot!" she placated, because it was the truth. "i said that i suspect everyone who talks like that about the particularities of the female body of being a potential idiot, as a matter of routine, but you undoubtedly convinced me that you are in fact an extremely intelligent, meticulous, self-conscious, self-righteous, ignorant asshole."

as undoing is not the opposite of doing, it's not surprising that you usually undo things that you never did.