So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

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

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

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