I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?