Quote

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

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
Wear
Computer
War

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
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
Image
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
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
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Larry Wall
Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Larry Wall
Image
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall
Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall
Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall
Image
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
Larry Wall
Image
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Larry Wall
Image
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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
I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
Larry Wall
Image
I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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
Image
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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