Free markets select for winning solutions.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.