335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.