Quotes from Erik Naggum

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

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

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

Life is hard, and then you die.

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

Life is too long to know C++ well.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

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