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.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

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

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.