Larry Wall Quotes
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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.
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Portability should be the default.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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