Larry Wall Quotes

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Music, Science, Architecture, Computer, Literature, Post)

"Programmers can be lazy."
- Larry Wall

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Language)

"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Art, Artist, Engineering)

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Design, Power, Development, Community)

"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
- Larry Wall
(Related: First)

"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Post)

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Compromise, Necessity)

"The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Problems)

"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Universe, World)

"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Time, Right)

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Art, Work, Artist)

"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."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Work, Language)

"I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Age, Science, Computer)

"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Law, Light, Will)

"I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid."
- Larry Wall

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Money)

"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Old)

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Death, Trying)

"For me, writing is a love-hate relationship."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Love, Writing)

"Hubris itself will not let you be an artist."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Artist, Will)

"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Company)

"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Idea, Inventions, Software)

"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Time)

"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."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Power, People, Ideas, Post, Rejection)

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Work, Open)

"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."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Hope, Open, Philosophy)

"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."
- Larry Wall
(Related: History, People, Positive, American, Software, Want, World)

"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."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Time, Development, Want)

"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Fun, Ideology)

"Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Day, Writing)

"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Running)

"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Want)