Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

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 natural languages work.