Computer Quote by Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

— Larry Wall

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

— Larry Wall

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to…

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

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

“you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”

— Mark Lutz

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned…

— Larry Wall

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

— 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

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's…

— Larry Wall