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.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

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

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.