335 Quotes by Larry Wall

And don’t tell me there isn’t one bit of difference between null and space, because that’s exactly how much difference there is.

I just hope I’m never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

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

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

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you’re quoting yourself when in fact you’re merely repeating yourself.

Even if you aren’t in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It’s a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it’s more expressive.

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

It’s easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.