335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.