Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

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.

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.