If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.