Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.