Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall

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

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry Wall

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

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

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

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

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.
Larry Wall

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

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

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall

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.
Larry Wall

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