There’s some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Now, I’m not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they’ll do very well with it.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven’t bothered.

I’m afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn’t cut it in the emergency room.

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

We’re really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

You know, I’ve got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

What you’ll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you’ve set your foot upon.