The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

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.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.