The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

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.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.