Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.