Life is too long to know C++ well.

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.

I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.