'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?

Sorry, I get a little excited when I talk about firearms.

I want you to know that I would do it all again. I will choose you every time.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

Character is the most precious gift of education.