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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Written by Larry Wall
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Written by Larry Wall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Written by Larry Wall
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Written by Larry Wall
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
Written by Larry Wall
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
Written by Larry Wall
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Written by Larry Wall
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Written by Larry Wall
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Written by Larry Wall
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Written by Larry Wall
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Written by Larry Wall
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
Written by Larry Wall
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
Written by Larry Wall
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
Programmers can be lazy.
Written by Larry Wall
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Written by Larry Wall
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.
Written by Larry Wall
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Written by Larry Wall
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Larry Wall

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