Larry Wall Quotes - Page 5

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

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.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.