It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.
Life is short (You need Python)
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore - they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve.
Life's better without braces.
If it's not tested, it's broken.
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.
What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.