When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.