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.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.