Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

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.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.