Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

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.

Information wants to be useful.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

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.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.