Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

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.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

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.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.