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

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.

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

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.