335 Quotes by Larry Wall

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

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.