335 Quotes by Larry Wall

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn’t one of them.

I’d make people say ‘use Fork;’ if I thought I could get away with it.

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

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language – the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

I don’t believe I’ve ever cuddled my elses.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you’ll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you’ll always be right.

I take time to watch anime. I don’t know whether I’m allowed to, but I do it anyway.

For the sake of argument I’ll ignore all your fighting words.

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.