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Larry Wall

302 quotes

• “: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?I'm still working on the Unicode mods.”

  Larry Wall (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.”

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• “And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.”

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• “The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)”

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• “I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?”

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• “I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)”

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• “So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.”

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• “It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.”

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• “: What do people think?What, do people think?”

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• “Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go.”

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• “I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.”

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• “Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.”

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• “On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.”

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• “Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.”

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• “That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.”

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• “If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.”

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• “So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.”

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• “One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.”

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• “In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'”

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• “Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?”

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• “But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)”

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• “My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.”

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• “Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”

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• “Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.”

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• “Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.”

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• “That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.”

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• “That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.”

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• “The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.”

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• “It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.”

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• “One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.”

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• “: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.”

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• “We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...”

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• “Accidental stacks considered harmful.”

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• “I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.”

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• “And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...”

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• “I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.”

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• “double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */”

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• “/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */”

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• “#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */”

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• “#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */”

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• “if (rsfp = mypopen('/bin/mail root','w')) { /* heh, heh */”

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• “/* And you'll never guess what the dog had *//* in its mouth... */”

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• “break; /* don't do magic till later */”

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• “stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */”

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• “tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */”

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• “pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */”

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• “str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */”

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• “echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.”

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• “echo 'Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a...'echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.”

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• “echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;”

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