We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

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.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!