“You cant change the past. You cant 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 ou...”

“Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.”

“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.”

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“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 land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”

“Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”

“I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”