What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.