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

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Information wants to be useful.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

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.