That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

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

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

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

Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.