It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.