"Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language."

"We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed."

"Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already."

"I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving."

"Call me bored, but don't call me boring."

"I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon."

"If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you."

"So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL."

"They can always run stderr through uniq."

"That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation …"