All Larry Wall Quotes
- As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be… Attribute
- It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled,… All
- It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. Attendance
- As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. Distinct
- And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). Except
- Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine. Engine
- You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off… Entirely
- I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. Company
- I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off. Development
- I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. Always Interested
- Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. All
- The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Conditions
- Programmers can be lazy. Funny
- Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. All
- Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. Art
- The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. Cultural
- The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. Along
- To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Allow
- We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. Anymore
- Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web… Far