Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Modernism was based on a kind of arrogance ... and led designers to believe that if they thought of something cool, it must be considered universally cool. That is, if something's worth doing, it's worth driving into the ground to… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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 Image
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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 Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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 Image
