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.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.