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

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

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.

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

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

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.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.