The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.