I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

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.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

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

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