The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

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.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

The ocean drummed as loud as pulsating blood, eroding the sand, rushing the beach as if it had a point to prove. And like many things, it receded, was gone, and was replaced anew.

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

LINK: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?