For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

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.

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

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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.

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.