Larry Wall Quotes on Philosophy
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. :-)
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Beauty? What's that?
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!