You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

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

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

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.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?