Hmmm; we can't postpone the dirty work any longer. In emergency situations, garbage collection is a necessity. And occasionally, as a ZDD base grows, garbage collection is a nicety, to keep our house in order.
Müllsammlung.
Alles oder Nichts.
I don't ever wanna be anything but everything.
Color Out: Anything but Everything
Progrem.
I write an average of five new programs every week. Poets have to write poems. I have to write computer programs.
The ultimate test of whether I understand something is if I can explain it to a computer. I can say something to you and you’ll nod your head, but I’m not sure that I explained it well. But the computer doesn’t nod its head. It repeats back exactly what I tell it. In most of life, you can bluff, but not with computers.
Donald Knuth in Quanta Magazine: The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
Them like that.
You can love somebody without it being like that.
You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
The hard part is to choose.
There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.
Maria Popova: Figuring