Re: I want more monkquips
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 10, 2009 at 12:37 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by FunkyMonk (Chancellor) on Apr 10, 2009 at 11:54 UTC
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I enjoy them too and I agree that more would be good. What about adding some Larry Wall quotes (eg my favorite "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi")? | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
Re: I want more monkquips
by Zen (Deacon) on Apr 10, 2009 at 14:12 UTC
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* Where RTFM meets TIMTOWTDI.
* Golfing since '87.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on Apr 10, 2009 at 18:18 UTC
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As for Thou shalt "use strict;", I think it would be better to use the precise quote from 1st Monasterians: Blessed are they that "use strict;", because that's not a commandment (if it was, then perl forced it to us), but an advice you should keep for your own good.
Oh, and this reminds me to another simple one: Don't reinvent the wheel.
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Perl6 released today!
This seems cruel. It would send me scurrying to the news sites, that's for sure. :-)
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Re: I want more monkquips
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 10, 2009 at 17:43 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 10, 2009 at 19:48 UTC
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One movie quote that always comes to mind when I see a Perl solution to a problem that was overly complex to state in another language is: "This is my boomstick" from Army of Darkness.
One quote I've always liked but that might be mildly offensive to some is "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly." from Henry Spencer. It's not directly Perl-related, but it's close. Given the PCRE and so many other languages doing regular expressions as a bolt-on these days, perhaps "Those who don't understand Perl are doomed to reinvent it, poorly", but that could still be somewhat offensive.
I really like your security, optimization, and other quips and the references to xkcd. Most of those included that aren't attributed can be attributed to someone, and probably should be. I know one is commonly credited to Donald Knuth and another to Kent Beck.
Simple restatements of long-time Perl and PerlMonks slogans might help liven up the quips, too. "Orthogonality is overrated" could stand in for "TIMTOWTDI" or "There's more than one way to do things".
Some short and simple in-jokes among the community might work, too. "By Christmas", "Who has the pumpkin?", "Just Another Perl Community Website", "What was rule #1 again?", and "Is that Obfu, Poetry, or Golf?" come to mind. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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Re: I want more monkquips
by atcroft (Abbot) on Apr 10, 2009 at 21:38 UTC
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I ran across the following, which gave me a bit of a laugh (at least) this local AM:
"After Perl everything else is just assembly language."
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Re: I want more monkquips
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Apr 11, 2009 at 00:05 UTC
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Some links from perl.net.au humour page:
A couple of other random ones that spring to mind:
Update: Some related PM nodes:
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Re: I want more monkquips
by perrin (Chancellor) on Apr 14, 2009 at 02:18 UTC
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I like this quote from dragonchild:
If I have to ask if something is possible on PerlMonks, I probably should rethink my design.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by FunkyMonk (Chancellor) on Apr 10, 2009 at 12:39 UTC
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you see the former in the XP nodelet when your XP changes
I've just made Monsignor, and got the following XP quip: "You gained 1 experience point due to radio active decay". I swear I've never seen that one bofore. Are they level dependent?
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Congrats.
I got that same XP quip last week and when I asked about it on the CB, someone gave me a suitably quip'py answer :D
AFAICT, the XP now appears to randomly attract a random quip...
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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Re: I want more monkquips
by grinder (Bishop) on Apr 10, 2009 at 13:13 UTC
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Great suggestions! I don't think "Training wheels with the bicycle." is offensive (speaking as someone who's writing a lot of PHP at the moment :(
It's a subtle in-joke that will go over most people's heads. But if you have the context it makes you smile.
• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl
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Re: I want more monkquips
by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 11, 2009 at 07:26 UTC
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All military inspired:- Regex ultima ratio
- Ubique quo regex et gloria ducunt
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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Regex ultima ratio puns on the phrase ultima ratio regum (literally, "the final argument of kings" - that is, war). Louis XIV apparently liked that phrase so much he had it put on French cannons. It also inspired a wonderful series of jokes in Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash involving a weapon named Ratio. (The joke manages to combine this Latin phrase with "I'll make him an offer he don't refuse..." from The Godfather movies.)
The second is apparently a reference to the motto (or mottos - see below) of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery: Ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt, which is literally, "Everywhere (where) right and glory lead." I'm assuming that the idea is this (imagine the soldier speaking): "I'll follow everywhere that right and glory lead."
According to Wikipedia, the Ubique was separate from the rest, and you really have two mottos here:
- Ubique: Everywhere
- Quo fas et gloria ducunt: Where right and glory lead
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Ubique quo regex et gloria ducunt
Consider a regex for every occasion! Almost, I would translate it as: Everywhere the regex and Gloria leads us(Gloria is Larry Wall's wife) The originals were "Regis Ultima Ratio" (The King's last argument) and "Ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt" (Everywhere Fate and Glory lead us), which are the mottoes of resp. the Belgian and English Artillery. And before anyone complains: yes it probably should be "regegis ultima ratio" and not "regex ultima ratio", but that doesn't sound as nice.
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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Re: I want more monkquips
by zentara (Archbishop) on Apr 10, 2009 at 13:23 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by xyzzy (Pilgrim) on Apr 15, 2009 at 20:05 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by targetsmart (Curate) on Apr 10, 2009 at 12:26 UTC
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does anyone know where perl lives?.... perlmonks!
Vivek
-- In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2009 at 22:01 UTC
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- Serving the community since 2000, with ketchup.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by ambrus (Abbot) on Nov 01, 2010 at 18:58 UTC
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The following piece of advice is from Richard Feynman.
You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.
Thus, I propose the following quip:
Learn something no one has learned before.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by repellent (Priest) on Apr 10, 2009 at 16:42 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by girarde (Hermit) on Oct 07, 2009 at 22:26 UTC
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In theory, theory and practice are the same.
Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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In theory, theory and practice are the same.
The version I heard is:
The difference between theory and practice, in theory, is less than the difference between theory and practice, in practice.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by davies (Prior) on Apr 08, 2015 at 10:27 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Nov 24, 2009 at 16:43 UTC
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I think that this line from a recent post by BioLion is ideally suited to be a monkquip:
… remember that practice makes perfect and if it doesn't there is always PerlMonks!
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Re: I want more monkquips
by ambrus (Abbot) on Dec 27, 2011 at 19:04 UTC
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Can you condense down these two quotes from Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless chapter 10 to short enough for a monkquip?
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when the thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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„The thing he realised about the windows was this: because they had been converted into openable windows after they had first been designed to be impregnable, they were, in fact, much less secure than if they had been designed as openable windows in the first place.
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Re: I want more monkquips
by spectre9 (Beadle) on Apr 23, 2009 at 20:12 UTC
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Re: I want more monkquips
by davies (Prior) on Oct 08, 2009 at 13:50 UTC
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When there's nothing in the chatterbox, how about:
The monks aren't silent, they just type fnord now & then
The monks here right now seem to be Trappists
Regards,
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Re: I want more monkquips
by why_bird (Pilgrim) on Apr 17, 2009 at 10:37 UTC
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well… I have others. (This quote is attributed to the comedian Groucho Marx but it applies to perl well.)
Good choice :) I'm a bit rubbish at thinking up snappy one liners, but I'd like to add my support to this movement and also ask..
Training wheels with the bicycle. (This might be offensive to PHP programmers a bit, so it's not really good)
what does this mean?!
I also particularly like 'realm of paco' and the xkcd quotes!
why_bird
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Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
-- Groucho Marx
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Re: I want more monkquips
by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 23, 2009 at 08:59 UTC
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