I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

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

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

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.