Mark Jason Dominus

"You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

"Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form ‘How do I use X to accomplish Y?’ There's nothing wrong with this, except …"

"A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got re…"

"In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion."

"Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work."