Larry Wall Quotes
- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
- Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
- Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
- Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
- Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
- It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
- Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
- A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
- The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
- The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can…
- We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
- What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
- You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
- For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
- Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because…
- Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
- Information wants to be useful.
- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
- Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.