Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry WallEven if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
Larry WallThere's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.
Larry WallWould you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
Larry WallA lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
Larry Wall