True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

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

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

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.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

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