And in turn I've lifted a quote from chromatic, in a reply to dws in this thread, because I liked the attention to detail it represents. Attention that, sadly, the programmers I work with lack. Similarly, to understand "it is a most inspired beverage", you have to know your Perlmonks polls.

I lift up quotes from the newsgroups (most notably from clpmisc) I read all the time, slightly more rarely from mailing lists and web forums (most notably this one): they end up in my collection of .sigs, although the latter mixes Perl stuff with much about anything else...