We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

Programmers can be lazy.

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

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.