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

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

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.