335 Quotes by Larry Wall

It’s hard to tune heavily tuned code.

What you’ll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you’ve set your foot upon.

You know, I’ve got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

We’re really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

It’s certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

I’m afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn’t cut it in the emergency room.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven’t bothered.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they’ll do very well with it.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.