Larry Wall Quotes - Page 7

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

Portability should be the default.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

The autodecrement is not magical.

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.