The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Information wants to be useful.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.