I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

— Erik Naggum, Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/fc76ebab1cb2f863

From a Usenet article under the Perl heading.

Topics: programming