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

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

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

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.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.