Larry Wall Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.”

“If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.”

“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.”

“Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.”

“The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.”