The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

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

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.