Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

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?