Quotes of Larry Wall - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

“ That is a conservative estimate. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall

“ These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We won't know any of that until that monster moves on through. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We won't know any of that until that monster moves on through. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We won't know any of that until that monster moves on through. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage. ”

- Larry Wall

“ That is a conservative estimate. ”

- Larry Wall

“ That is a conservative estimate. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ”

- Larry Wall

“ For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ”

- Larry Wall

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

- Larry Wall

“ Beauty? What's that? ”

- Larry Wall

“ The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. ”

- Larry Wall

“ If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. ”

- Larry Wall

“ The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. ”

- Larry Wall
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