335 Quotes by Larry Wall

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.