Type system people when they hear complaints that the formalism in their latest proposed extension is going to be too difficult for users to understand:

Mark Dominus@mjd@mathstodon.xyz

#beethoven on hearing a report that a violinist complained one of his string quartets was too hard to play:

"Does he really believe that I think about his silly fiddle when the muse strikes me to compose?"

Update: I haven't been able to verify this, and Claude plausibly opines that it is unverifiable: claude.ai/share/762f177a-580e-

Jul 5, 2026, 14:34 UTCen