Larry Wall Quotes

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

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.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can’t agree on when it’s necessary to compromise.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl’s been expanding along with the universe.