335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.