Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.