[anm89]

I read something from Why the lucky stiff the other day where he interviewed famous programmers. A lot of them gave long complicated answers about everything and Guido van Rossum mostly gave one liners.

On the topic of what makes truly exceptional programmers exceptional his one line was: good taste.

There is not one rule set to social situations. There is no perfectly consistent framework that purely promotes free speech while being smart enough to say: we shouldn't teach creationism in school. It's a matter of having the taste to subjectively evaluate the bigger picture and say this is what's right