It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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

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.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.