Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

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.

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

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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.