Dearly beloved, as we have gathered here today to celebrate the union of a bunch of really awesome people,
    let us continue this ceremony with a reading of The Love Chapter, by the Apostle Perl.

If I program in the tongues of industry or of wizards, but do not have love,
    I am only a resounding gong or a bell that goes 'tink'.
If I can predict the next killer app, understand everything from catenary curves to category theory,
    and have the smarts to combine it into a popular open-source project, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I put a billion modules onto CPAN and make it to every YAPC to show my dedication,
    but do not have love, I gain nothing.  Nada.  The null set.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
    (Sure, a little hubristic, but never proud.)
Love does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
    it keeps no record of wrongs, except in the git logs (but y'know you can squash those).
Love does not delight in trolling but rejoices when people learn New Stuff.
    Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  At least till Christmas.

Love never fails.  But futurologists, linguists, and all other experts will eventually run
    out of things to say.  We can but hope.

For we know in part, and we can only talk about what we know, duh...
    but later when we know much more, we will all wish we could erase our younger selves off the Internet.
When I was a newbie, I programmed like a newbie, I thought like a newbie, I fell into all the newbie traps.
    When I became an expert, I stopped thinking like a noob.  But we're all still noobs about the future.

For now, we can see our destiny only as a reflection in a mirror; someday we'll face our future directly.
    For now, we know in part; later we shall know fully, even as we ourselves become more knowable.
So until then, we'll just have to settle for these three virtues: faith, hope, and love.
    But the most awesome of these is love.