335 Quotes by Larry Wall

I’m sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

I think I’m likely to be certified before Perl is...

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I’ll try my best to fake it.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you’ve read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it’s got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

It’s there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that’s pretty standard.

As a linguist, I don’t think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

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.