I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

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.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.