Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.