There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.