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Larry Wall Inspirational Quotes (139)

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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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