Using Perl Quotes by Larry Wall

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

— Larry Wall

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

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

— Larry Wall

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

— Larry Wall

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

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

— Larry Wall

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

— Larry Wall

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

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall