Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
Larry Wall
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
TimToady
Larry Arnold Wall
Symmetry
Overrated
More quotes by Larry Wall
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Larry Wall
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
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
Larry Wall
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
Larry Wall
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Larry Wall
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
Larry Wall
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
Larry Wall
Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
Larry Wall
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
Larry Wall
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
Larry Wall
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
Larry Wall
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Larry Wall
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
Larry Wall
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
Larry Wall
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
Larry Wall
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
Larry Wall
Information wants to be useful.
Larry Wall
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
Larry Wall