I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.