[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.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

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.

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.