Larry Wall Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

34 most famous Larry Wall quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 69 year old American author born on Sep 27, 1954.

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“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”

“Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.”

“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“Programmers can be lazy.”

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

“Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.”

“I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.”

“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.”

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

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