Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.