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.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.