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

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

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

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.

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.

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