It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

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

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user