The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.