Life is too long to know C++ well.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
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.
If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.
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.