Quote

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

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
Ordinary
Graham
May
Billy
Something
Automatic
Always
Explicit
Conversion
Assistance
Require
Folks

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
Larry Wall
Image
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
Larry Wall
Image
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
Larry Wall
Image
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
Larry Wall
Image
I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Larry Wall
Image
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
Larry Wall
Image
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
Image
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
Larry Wall
Image
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
Larry Wall
Image
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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
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.
Larry Wall