Larry Wall Quotes - Page 6

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

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

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Even the White House has a press agent.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.