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

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.

Life is hard, and then you die.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

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

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

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