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.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.