Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

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

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Portability should be the default.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

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

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.

There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.