Information wants to be useful.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

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