When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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