Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

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.

Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

I see the light in your smile.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.