The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.