Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
– Larry Wall
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
– Larry Wall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
– Larry Wall
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
– Larry Wall
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
– Larry Wall
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
– Larry Wall
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
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
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
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.