Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

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.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.