Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

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.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.