Python Quotes · Page 2

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

— Bruce Eckel

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Mike Loukides

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Maneka Gandhi

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Robin Williams

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

— Reggie Watts

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

— Larry Wall

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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but…

— Eric Idle

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were…

— Mike Myers

A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

— Dana Gould

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

— Mara Wilson

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

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

— Larry Wall

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

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows,…

— Robert Hewison

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

— Russell Howard

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

— Terry Jones

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

— Keith Bostic

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

— Eric Idle

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

— Anonymous

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

— Isla Fisher

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

— Scott Adsit

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

— Alice Cooper

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

— Lana Del Rey

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

— Larry Wall

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

— Alan Kay

When I was in my late teens, I discovered 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Monty Python,' and they still make me laugh.

— Shaun Evans

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

— Larry Wall

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

— Graham Chapman

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

— Larry Wall

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman