The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.