I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.
People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.
Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.