335 Quotes by Larry Wall

I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.

There’s many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

I’m just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it’s development, and some of the time it’s just goofing off.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there’s always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I’ll throw things in there and let them stew around. It’s sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

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

I wouldn’t ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

Just because you’re into control doesn’t mean you’re in control.

It should be illegal to yell ‘Y2K’ in a crowded economy.