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

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

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

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

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.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.