Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them. — Larry Wall Being famous Copy Share Image
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control. — Larry Wall Computer Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Approach Copy Share Image
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. — Larry Wall Art Copy Share Image
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good… — Larry Wall Abuse Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Character Copy Share Image
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. — Larry Wall Computer Copy Share Image
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You cant change the past. You cant even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one… — Larry Wall Can't change Copy Share Image
I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible… — Larry Wall Bad thoughts Copy Share Image
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around… — Larry Wall Attention Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Approach Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself.… — Larry Wall Brain Copy Share Image
A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
