Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Larry Wall
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
TimToady
Larry Arnold Wall
Road
Lies
Crazy
Snowballs
Hell
Snowball
Path
Paved
Hand
Melting
Lying
Mad
Hands
Madness
More quotes by Larry Wall
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
Larry Wall
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
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
Larry Wall
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Larry Wall
Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
Larry Wall
I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
Larry Wall
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
Larry Wall
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
Larry Wall
Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
Larry Wall
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
Larry Wall
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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
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.
Larry Wall
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Larry Wall
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Larry Wall
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
