This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

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

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.