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.

- Larry Wall

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

- Larry Wall

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.

- Larry Wall

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

- Larry Wall

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

- Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall