I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.

Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.