When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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.

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.