Quotes by Larry Wall

“You cant change the past. You cant even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of ou...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“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.”

“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”

“You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of ...”

“Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”

“And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”

“Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.”

“Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.”

“Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.”

“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”

“I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...”

“Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.”

“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...”

“I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.”

“I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.”