Perfecting Oneself Is As Much Unlearning As

Beauty Is Our Business.

Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.

If You Want More Effective Programmers, You Will Discover That They Should Not Waste Their Time Debugging, They Should Not Introduce The Bugs To Start With.

A Most Important, But Also Most Elusive, Aspect Of Any Tool Is Its Influence On The Habits Of Those Who Train Themselves In Its Use. If The Tool Is A Programming Language This Influence Is, Whether We Like It Or Not, An Influence On Our Thinking Habits.... A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.

Thanks To The Greatly Improved Possibility Of Communication, We Overrate Its Importance. Even Stronger, We Underrate The Importance Of Isolation.