a programming day job is an oxymoron: computer programming used to be the technique of automating day jobs.
programmers became developers became coders became clerks. thus creative coding was invented.
once your work becomes art, you can no longer bear the stench of industrial production.
object orientation is a dumbed-down mimicry of the natural world.
there is perpetual war between performance and abstraction; eventually one must craft hardware.
the only way to really appreciate something is to create it; this aphorism could not be more truer for computers.
lisp will never enter the software industry; that is a true measure of its greatness.
the real intention of creating computers might have been to elevate everyone to programmer status: obviously this goes against “business as usual”.
it is only after you are tired of programming in Java and Python and Javascript that you really begin to appreciate C programmers.
generative art therapy: a healing process for programmers traumatized by the software development business. highly recommended.
mystic programmer: a programmer who has transcended the tendencies of hubris and laziness.
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming; it is frequently misconstrued as Natural Language Processing, which is a mere local instance of the former.