in reply to Quine generator
classical one was:
Classical ones are on the Quine page (which is apparently not maintained anymore).
The shortest non-empty non-cheating one I know is (ends with two newlines)
print<< x2,v10 print<< x2,v10 [download]
Another that uses perl's various quoting operators to avoid having to escape stuff dynamically is (no newline)
$a=q(;print"\$a=q($a)$a");print"\$a=q($a)$a" [download]
Update: see Short quines.