Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.