Python Quotes · Page 2

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

— Larry Wall

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

— Eric S. Raymond

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

— Lana Del Rey

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

— Alice Cooper

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

— Isla Fisher

If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise.

— Anonymous

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”

— Keith Bostic

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

— Terry Jones

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

— Larry Wall

When you're, like, writing a Python script, it doesn't feel like you're doing something to someone. You just don't think, 'How could…

— Christopher Wylie

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have…

— Larry Wall

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly…

— Reggie Watts

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop!…

— David Attenborough

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl…

— Erik Naggum

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He…

— Tim O'Reilly

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks,…

— Larry Wall

As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life…

— David Javerbaum

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in…

— Eric Idle

I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they…

— Mara Wilson

Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas…

— Libba Bray

I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word,…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things…

— Erik Naggum

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

— Russell Howard

“Don't blame Perl. It's the same as in C. IEEE says we have to do this.”

— Anonymous

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

— Eric Idle

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

— Robin Williams

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.

— Richard Dawkins

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

— Maneka Gandhi

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

— Larry Wall

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

— Bruce Eckel

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”

— Mike Loukides

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

— Larry Wall

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

— Eric Idle

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

— Larry Wall

“you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”

— Mark Lutz

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

— Mark Gatiss