Quote

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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
Yell
Crowded
Illegal
Economy

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
Image
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
Larry Wall
Image
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Larry Wall
Image
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall
Image
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
Larry Wall
Image
Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
Larry Wall
Image
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
Larry Wall
Image
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Larry Wall
Image
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall
Image
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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
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
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
Larry Wall
Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
Larry Wall
Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
Image
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
Larry Wall