A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they’ll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that’s a really sort of hubristic notion – excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

— Larry Wall

Larry Wall Quotes

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

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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.

— Larry Wall

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it’s not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

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We don’t have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types – in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...

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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

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

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

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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.

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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

— Larry Wall

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

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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.

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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they’re all inconsistent with each other.

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

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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn’t one of them.

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It’s hard to tune heavily tuned code.

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Even the White House has a press agent.

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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

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