All Larry Wall Quotes
- To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. Assistance
- Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. Both
- Even the White House has a press agent. Agent
- I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. Grammar
- For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words. All
- Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. Closure
- Reserve your abuse for your true friends. Abuse
- The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. All
- 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? Came
- It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. Code
- Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine? Bit
- Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died... Bunch
- There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin. Entertainment
- Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. Compile
- I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? Folks
- Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. Clue
- So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head… Arms
- Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. Consistently
- I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses. Believe
- I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. Ever Write