You can never succeed in aligning your life in the positive direction without first detecting, challenging, and changing your self-defeating mental beliefs.

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]