Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.