Quote

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

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
Symmetry
Overrated

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
Larry Wall
Image
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Larry Wall
Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Larry Wall
Image
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Larry Wall
Image
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Larry Wall
Image
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
Larry Wall
Image
I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
Larry Wall
Image
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Larry Wall
Image
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
Image
I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
Larry Wall
Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Larry Wall
Image
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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