Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Contempt Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are… — Larry Wall Absence Copy Share Image
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't… — Larry Wall Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means,… — Larry Wall Computer Copy Share Image
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Architecture Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed… — Larry Wall Art Copy Share Image
There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. — Larry Wall Clubs Copy Share Image
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the… — Larry Wall Jobs Copy Share Image
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall Computer Copy Share Image
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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