Quote

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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
Virtue
Stereotype
Courses
Laziness
Course
Virtues
Funny
Programming
Three
Familiar
Programmer
Profession
Hubris
Computer
Programmers
Technology
Impatience

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
Larry Wall
Image
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
Larry Wall
Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Larry Wall
Image
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
Larry Wall
Image
To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall
Image
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Larry Wall
Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Larry Wall
Image
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
Larry Wall
Image
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
Larry Wall
Image
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
Larry Wall
Image
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
Larry Wall
Image
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
Larry Wall
Image
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Larry Wall
Image
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
Larry Wall
Image
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Larry Wall
Image
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
Larry Wall
Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall