Words matter. These are the best Larry Wall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
I think operating systems work best if they’re free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Many days I don’t write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
We are so Post-Modern that we don’t realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
I’m just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it’s development, and some of the time it’s just goofing off.
I’m never satisfied because I’ve been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It’s still running.
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.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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.
I take time to watch anime. I don’t know whether I’m allowed to, but I do it anyway.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Somebody out there is going to do something that’s far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
