Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

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.

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

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.

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.