While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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