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.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.