335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."