A good messenger expects to get shot.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

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.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.