Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.