Accidental stacks considered harmful.

- Larry Wall

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

- Larry Wall

The autodecrement is not magical.

- Larry Wall

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

- Larry Wall

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

- Larry Wall

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

- Larry Wall

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

- Larry Wall

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

- Larry Wall

A good messenger expects to get shot.

- Larry Wall