Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it. - Larry Wall
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. - Larry Wall
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. - Larry Wall
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. - Larry Wall