A good messenger expects to get shot.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.