I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.