335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

Don’t wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

There’s often more than one correct thing. There’s often more than one right thing. There’s often more than one obvious thing.

There’s a saying in the software design industry: “Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.”

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they’re just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, “Oh, that’s a cool way to say it,” and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it’s shiny.

If you write something wrong enough, I’ll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what’s happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.