... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)

I was writing a lot of lyrics five or six years ago and the name Marilyn Manson, I thought really describes everything that I had to say, you know, male and fe…

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers ... What they really hate are lousy programmers.

John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know…