All Larry Wall Quotes
- It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there. Funny
- The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. Declare
- It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. Easy
- I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it. Fork
- I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room. Afraid
- One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy. Big
- My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=. Ache
- That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. Any
- Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. Implement
- Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S. Inspirational
- Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. Funny
- Accidental stacks considered harmful. Accidental
- And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within… Agent
- We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our… Absence
- And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally... Broken
- I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a… Confuse
- Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days? Been
- It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy. Crowded
- Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably… Code
- Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. Consider