Larry Wall: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo”

Larry Wall

[199710311916.LAA19760@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */</tt”

Larry Wall

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

“I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right… But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

People

“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”

Larry Wall

[10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

People , Thinking , Universe

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

Larry Wall

[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.”

Larry Wall

[1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.”

Larry Wall

[199801081824.KAA29602@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Hate

“The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.”

Larry Wall

[8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.”

Larry Wall

[1992Jan17.005405.16806@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

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

Larry Wall

[199807171819.LAA13771@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Perl should remain fast and intuitive”

Larry Wall

to the extent that it is :-
[199804151704.KAA12290@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.”

Larry Wall

[199710161841.LAA13208@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
Documentation

“So… Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us."”

Larry Wall

We'll get to that.
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

“I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.”

Larry Wall

[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

People

“The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.”

Larry Wall

[199709020026.RAA08431@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”

Larry Wall

[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers…”

Larry Wall

[199710091434.HAA00838@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.”

Larry Wall

[199804161810.LAA18902@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998