Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.