One man's constant is another man's variable.
Any noun can be verbed.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.