Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

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