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.

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

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.