Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Any noun can be verbed.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.