335 Quotes by Larry Wall

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Information wants to be useful.