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

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

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

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

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

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.