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.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.