Quote

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

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
Less
Jobs
Others
May
Travelled
Take
Roads
Life
Pleasant
Road
Travel

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Larry Wall
Image
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
Larry Wall
Image
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Larry Wall
Image
I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall
Image
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
Larry Wall
Image
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Larry Wall
Image
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Larry Wall
Image
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
Larry Wall
Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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
Portability should be the default.
Larry Wall
Image
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall
Image
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Larry Wall
Image
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
Larry Wall
Image
At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Larry Wall
Image
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
Larry Wall