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.

Information wants to be useful.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

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.

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