I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

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Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

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We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

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