If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.