Quote

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

Larry Wall

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
TimToady
Larry Arnold Wall
Lies
Crazy
Snowballs
Hell
Snowball
Path
Paved
Hand
Melting
Lying
Mad
Hands
Madness
Road

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
Larry Wall
Image
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
Larry Wall
Image
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
Image
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
Larry Wall
Image
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Larry Wall
Image
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
Larry Wall
Image
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
Larry Wall
Image
I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
Larry Wall
Image
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
Larry Wall
Image
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
Larry Wall
Image
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
Larry Wall
Image
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Larry Wall
Image
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
Larry Wall
Image
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
Larry Wall
Image
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
Image
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Larry Wall
Image
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall
Image
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
Larry Wall
Image
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall