The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

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

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

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