Larry Wall Quotes - Page 4

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

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.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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 it.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

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.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Information wants to be useful.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

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.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.