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

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

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.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.