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.

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...

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

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

Information wants to be useful.

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

...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.

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

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

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