Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

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.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

He alone may chastise who loves.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.