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.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

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.