Perl was designed to work more like a natural language…

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

— Larry Wall

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”

— Mike Loukides

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“English was such a strange language - expressive in so may way, but so bland in others.”

— Farahad Zama

“A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that…

— Adi Alsaid

“I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.”

— Chris Cleave

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has…

— John Ruskin

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things…

— Andrei Codrescu

I had the opportunity to travel to America when I was younger and learned the language.

— Rodri

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a…

— Ivan Illich

When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words…

— William J. Clinton

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

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

— Larry Wall