335 Quotes by Larry Wall

It has been very hard for these companies, because many of them first had to locate their workers who had been evacuated and now have to deal with problems of access to their facilities.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

Just don't create a file called.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

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

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

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