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Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm. — Erik Naggum

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

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

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"? — Erik Naggum

The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm. — Erik Naggum

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. — Erik Naggum

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

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. — Erik Naggum

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

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum

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

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

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. — Erik Naggum

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

Life is too long to know C++ well. — Erik Naggum

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

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

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

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

XML is a giant step in no direction at all. — Erik Naggum

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

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. — Erik Naggum

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

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

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. — Erik Naggum

In C++, reinvention is its own reward. — Erik Naggum

Life is hard, and then you die. — Erik Naggum

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

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. — Erik Naggum

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. — Erik Naggum

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

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

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