Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

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

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.