Extreme Markup Languages had its usual thought-provoking intensity this past week in Montreal. The following bits may provoke yet a few more thoughts.

"What could be more extreme than the notion that we can technologize knowledge?"

"I know I'm feeling better when I start planning XML parties."

"The reason why I've got these complicated things is that it's complicated."

"All our progress is catastrophic."

"a new level of wonderfulness, whatever that might be."

"If you use the wrong patterns, you'll never come back."

"There are two reasons I got into this topic. One of them was a good reason, the other was the kind of reason that usually gets people into these kinds of topics."

"Implementability was not a goal of the Schema Working Group."

"The example is defective in various ways, but it doesn't matter."

"They put in an SGML publishing system and fired all the editors.... I need editors."

"It's not a tree. Or, if we built a tree, it would be infinite. Some traversal takes forever, so... don't do that."

"This may have a bit of the 2am in the bar too many drinks kind of feel to it."

"This talk is a pretty negative talk, I'm afraid, but..."

"Extreme means never having to say you're sorry."

"You ought to know how to use it. Those are the places where it's broken."