"I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."

"So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that."

"Literacy is sorcery itself in the hinterland."

"The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self."

"I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself for the next hit, and feel something. Something grainy…"

"…in the first place, self decapitation is an extremely difficult, not to say dangerous, thing to attempt; a…"

"Giraldus, garrulous, egotistic, spiteful, as he is, makes us half forget his faults in the endless instruct…"