Larry Wall Want Quotations

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

Information wants to be useful.

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager...