Computer Quotes
- You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? — Larry Wall
- Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall
- I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence. — Larry Wall
- Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control. — Larry Wall
- It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. — Larry Wall
- What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? — Larry Wall
- 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… — Larry Wall
- Just don't create a file called. — Larry Wall
- A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step. — Larry Wall
- A good messenger expects to get shot. — Larry Wall
- Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... — Larry Wall
- ... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — Larry Wall
- It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall
- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... — Larry Wall
- 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… — Larry Wall
- [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)… — Larry Wall
- Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war. — Larry Wall
- ...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. — Larry Wall
- Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. — Larry Wall
- You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall