Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

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.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.