Programmers tend to be divided into tribes by the languages they use. More even than by the kinds of programs they write. - Paul Graham

As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live.

learn to program by looking at good programs — not just at what they do, but at the source code.

I expected technology to make programming less laborious, as it does to most things. But I have to admit I expected it to happen by programmers switching to more powerful languages, rather than continuing to write programs full of boilerplate, but having AIs generate most of it.