Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

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

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

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

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.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.