It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? — Larry Wall Copy Share
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent… — Larry Wall Copy Share
While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the… — Larry Wall Copy Share
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. — Larry Wall Copy Share
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to… — Larry Wall Copy Share
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core. — Larry Wall Copy Share
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