You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

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

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.