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

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.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.