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
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all… — 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
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — 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
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'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
Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else… — 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… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a… — 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
![“Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.” quote by Larry Wall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/larry-wall-1576_ideas_never-put-off-till-tomorrow-what-you-can_450078.png)
