Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
A good messenger expects to get shot.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Information wants to be useful.
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.