Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
If you decide to design your own language there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
I saw few die of hunger of eating a hundred thousand.
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10 000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.