Quote

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

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
Paid
Computer
Hard
Work

More quotes by 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
Image
To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall
Image
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
Larry Wall
Image
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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 view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
Image
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
Image
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Larry Wall
Image
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
Larry Wall
Image
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
Larry Wall
Image
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
Larry Wall
Image
There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
Larry Wall
Image
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
Larry Wall
Image
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Larry Wall
Image
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
Larry Wall