I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

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

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.