Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

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

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

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

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.

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

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.