12. Most of the time, a lawyer's job is to say no, but a coder's is to find out how.
11. Coders can go to work in t-shirts & jeans.
10. Coders get to create stuff everyday, not tear stuff down.
9. Coders learn every day how to write more powerful code.
8. There are never enough coders, but there are always too many lawyers.
7. Lawyers win arguments by getting on our nerves; coders win by building the prototype.
6. Programming books are expensive, but legal books are grand larceny.
5. Coders have an essentially cooperative profession. We are always helping each other out, with our blogs, and code camps, and on the job... Lawyers are essentially, well lawyers.
4. Coder's tools and clients become more powerful and cheaper every year a la Moore's Law.
3. Lawyers had to pay for and survive three years of law school.
2. As coders we take compilers and applications apart - not people.
1. As a coder you will never be asked to defend a guilty client or seek the death penalty for an innocent accused.