The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from… — 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
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — 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
