One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.