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

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?

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.