Larry Wall

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

“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”

“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”

“I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.”

“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.”

“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.”