I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

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

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

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 think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.