All Larry Wall Quotes
- This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake… Best
- Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. Autobiography
- You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? Columns
- Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. Amount
- I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence. Computer
- Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control. Computer
- It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. Computer
- What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? Afterwards
- Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad… Bad
- Just don't create a file called. Called
- A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step. Computer
- A good messenger expects to get shot. Computer
- Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... Computer
- ... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. C Programmer
- It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. Ada
- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... All
- I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and… Accuse
- [Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform)… Attempts
- Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war. Computer
- ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head. Bullet