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Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

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

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

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

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

Life is too long to know C++ well.

The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

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

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

In C++, reinvention is its own reward.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

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.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

Code sharing is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.