Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.