Larry Wall Quotes

• Younger hackers are hard to classify. They’re probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We’re all over the map.

  Larry Wall

• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It’s limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  Larry Wall

• We are so Post-Modern that we don’t realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  Larry Wall

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can’t agree on when it’s necessary to compromise.

  Larry Wall

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  Larry Wall

• There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

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• The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl’s been expanding along with the universe.

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• The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

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• The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

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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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• Somebody out there is going to do something that’s far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

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• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

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• Programmers can be lazy.

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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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• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It’s a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it’s more expressive.

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• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

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• Many days I don’t write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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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.

  Larry Wall

• 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’m never satisfied because I’ve been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

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Larry Wall (33)

Birth:	27th September, 1954
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Computer Programmer

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