Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

—— Umberto Eco, *The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana*

Surely all this is not without meaning.

—— HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby-Dick, 1851

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

—— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

凡治众如治寡，分数是也；斗众如斗寡，形名是也。