Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Brain
Community
Power
Perl
Wanted
Announced
Going
Designed
Limited
Development
Design
More quotes by Larry Wall
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
Larry Wall
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
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry Wall
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
Larry Wall
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Larry Wall
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Larry Wall
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
Larry Wall
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Larry Wall
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Larry Wall
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Larry Wall
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
Larry Wall
Portability should be the default.
Larry Wall
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
Larry Wall
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
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
Larry Wall