Larry Wall

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

— Larry Wall

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is…

— Larry Wall

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

— Larry Wall

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

— Larry Wall

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

— Larry Wall

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

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

— Larry Wall

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

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

— Larry Wall

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

— Larry Wall

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

— Larry Wall

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

— Larry Wall

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

— Larry Wall

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

— Larry Wall

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is…

— Larry Wall

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

— Larry Wall

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

— Larry Wall