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

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

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

Information wants to be useful.

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

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.