Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.