335 Quotes by Larry Wall

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.