I can look at code and say, "ah, Alan Perlis, you were right when I read your advice when I was 11 years old, but did not understand your wisdom [1]": 10. Get

I can look at code and say, "ah, Alan Perlis, you were right when I read your advice when I was 11 years old, but did not understand your wisdom [1]": 10. Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary. [1] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html