What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to 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.

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

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.