Larry Wall: Trending quotes

“Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.”

Larry Wall

[199708261932.MAA05218@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

People , Thinking

“Beauty? What's that?”

Larry Wall

[199710221937.MAA25131@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Beauty

“Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [ Was that sufficiently incendiary?]”

Larry Wall

[1992Jan10.201804.11926@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

School

“Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.”

Larry Wall

[199709021744.KAA12428@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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

Larry Wall

[199809251659.JAA06689@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Thinking

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

Larry Wall

[199809151814.LAA22396@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.”

Larry Wall

[1991Apr22.175438.8564@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

Dependency

“Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.”

Larry Wall

[199709051808.LAA01780@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config. sh.”

Larry Wall

[9384@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“P. S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did…”

Larry Wall

[199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

World

“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”

Larry Wall

[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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

Larry Wall

[199809150037.RAA17580@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Thinking

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

Larry Wall

[199808291719.KAA12244@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Happiness

“I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?”

Larry Wall

[199806181642.JAA10629@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Daughters

“It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.”

Larry Wall

[199709041935.MAA27136@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Optimism

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

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>perl.c</code>

“And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto.”

Larry Wall

[199711071749.JAA29751@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Way

“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”

Larry Wall

On s/foo/bar/eieio [10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

Thinking

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

Larry Wall

[6vu1vo%2489c@kiev.wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).”

Larry Wall

Usenet postings, 1997

Sun , Help