True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

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.