The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

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.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

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.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.