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
Famous
Benefits
Fame
Life

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
Larry Wall
Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall
Image
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Larry Wall
Image
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
Larry Wall
Image
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
Larry Wall
Image
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
Image
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Larry Wall
Image
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Larry Wall
Image
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
Larry Wall
Image
People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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
I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
Image
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
Larry Wall