Larry Wall Quotes

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• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
• I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
• I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
• Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
• We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
• The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
• Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
• I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes…
• "Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the…
• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by…
• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still…

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