“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”
- Larry Wall
“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”
“Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.”
“I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.”
“I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.”
“I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.”
“I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.”
“I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.”
“I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.”
“I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.”
“I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.”
“I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.”
“I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.”
“I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.”