Creatively Quote by Larry Wall

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

— Erik Naggum

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

— Larry Wall

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

— Larry Wall

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

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…

— Larry Wall

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people…

— Larry Wall

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

— Larry Wall

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

— Larry Wall

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

— Larry Wall