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.

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

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.