Life is too long to know C++ well.

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

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.

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

Life is too long to know C++ well.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

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.