Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them! — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? — Larry Wall Copy Share
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share
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… — Larry Wall Copy Share
While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the… — Larry Wall Copy Share
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. — Larry Wall Copy Share
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to… — Larry Wall Copy Share
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core. — Larry Wall Copy Share
