Quote

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

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
Benefits
Fame
Life
Famous

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Larry Wall
Image
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Larry Wall
Image
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
Image
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
Image
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall
Image
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
Larry Wall
Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
Image
Programmers can be lazy.
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
Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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
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
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'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
Image
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
Larry Wall
Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Larry Wall