They Said It, November 2006


Used to be I couldn't spell genus and now I are one.

There are a lot of computer languages out there that are doing drugs.

If there's one problem perl is trying to solve it's that all programming languages suck.

Tt takes ten years to become good at being a kid. Then an other ten years to become good at not being a kid.

Am adult is someone who knows when to care.

- All from a speech by Larry Wall at OSCON 2006


I'm not much interested in interoperability. I want substitutability. I want to be able to throw your software out. - Simon Phipps

Source: OSCON 2006 talk


Universities love to include pictures of their CIOs. I have no idea why. - Steven O'Grady

Source: talk at OSCON 2006


There is nothing as strong and as indestructible as a mesh network. And that's what the internet is. - Tom Esvlin, at a berkman meeting.