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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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Erik Naggum

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

Liars, Ignorance, People, Guesswork, Optimized
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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.

Done, Language, Rewards, Tools

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.

Basically, Nice, People, Thieves

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

Actually, Bother, Concern, Follow, People

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc. , just because he wants speed.

Code, Errors, Etc, Intractable, Thinking, Viruses

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.

Inherit, Kept, Real, Remove, Tape, Together
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