Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

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.