Larry Wall quotes - page 11

Help save the world! (Larry Wall)
Be consistent. View quote
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It's all magic. View quote
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. View quote
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. View quote
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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. View quote
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. View quote
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. View quote
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. (Larry Wall)
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. View quote
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. View quote
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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. View quote
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. View quote
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Programmers can be lazy. View quote
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. View quote
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. View quote
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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. (Larry Wall)
As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle. View quote
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving. View quote
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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department). View quote
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P. S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did... View quote
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