The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

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.

Ninety-five per cent of your success or failure will come from your daily habits.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Innovations never happen as planned.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!