Larry Wall quotes - page 2

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.) (Larry Wall)
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory. View quote
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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. View quote
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core. View quote
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. View quote
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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. View quote
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. View quote
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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... View quote
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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. View quote
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. View quote
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. (Larry Wall)
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. View quote
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. View quote
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive. View quote
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. View quote
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. View quote
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. View quote
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. View quote
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed. View quote
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. View quote
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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. (Larry Wall)
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby. View quote
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science! View quote
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=. View quote
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. View quote
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