Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research
> You can't just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.1. Loudly declare that theory is useless.2. Ignore any tool that is not "serious" -- i.e. so larded with other people's complexity that all theory is useless.3. Justify (2) by claiming that "ordinary" programmers are too stupid: only the brilliant can understand a tool so simple that theory is not useless.4. Pension!