Information wants to be useful.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

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

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

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

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.

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.