335 Quotes by Larry Wall

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.