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

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

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

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.