About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.