Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.

Life is hard, and then you die.

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

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.