335 Quotes by Larry Wall

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It’s something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

If you’re a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you’re an individual like me, you can’t.

Perhaps I’m missing the gene for making enemies.

Although the Perl Slogan is There’s More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

So please don’t think I have a ‘down’ on the MVS people. I’m just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

Just don’t create a file called.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell’s Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

It’s easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl’s been expanding along with the universe.