Larry Wall Quotes
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'
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Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Portability should be the default.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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*** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.\nif /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
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If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
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Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.