Quotes By Larry Wall
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Larry Wall
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall
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 thing in the first place.
Larry Wall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
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
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall