335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.