Larry Wall

Perl is optimized for the programmer, not the computer.

Life is too short not to use Perl.

The art of programming is the art of managing complexity.

I believe in the power of open source.

Every program is a part of some larger program and rarely used alone.

Humor is the best way to teach.

The universe runs on Perl.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience drives innovation.

Code is read more often than it is written.

The joy of programming is in the creation.

Avoid premature optimization.

Software is like entropy: it is easy to create, hard to destroy.

Learn from the past, live in the present, code for the future.

Perl's regexes are a gift from the gods of pattern matching.

Collaboration is the key to great software.

The best code is the code that never has to be written.

In programming, as in life, flexibility is strength.

I write code to understand the world.

Bugs are features you don't want.

The essence of programming is abstraction.