The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

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.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.