Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

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.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.