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

- Larry Wall

Programmers can be lazy.

- Larry Wall

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

- 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

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

- Larry Wall

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

- 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

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

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

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

- Larry Wall

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.

- Larry Wall

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

- 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

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

- Larry Wall