A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

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

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.