We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.