It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

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.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?