Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

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.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.