Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.