To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Larry Wall More Quotes by Larry Wall More Quotes From Larry Wall A good messenger expects to get shot. Larry Wall messengersshotscomputer Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. Larry Wall languagebeautifulworld At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. Larry Wall diagonallevelslanguage Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. Larry Wall autobiographycomputer You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? Larry Wall linesdoewant I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence. Larry Wall incontinencecomputerlevels Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control. Larry Wall computermean Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. Larry Wall computerlanguageeasy What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards? Larry Wall computerwritingfirsts If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. Larry Wall viewsreasonhelping As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. Larry Wall adalanguagethinking Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them. Larry Wall benefitsfamelife 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. Larry Wall creativitytryingthinking Just don't create a file called '-rf.' Larry Wall filescomputer The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.) Larry Wall courtorderyears To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. Larry Wall perl Well, I think Perl should run faster than C. Larry Wall shouldrunningthinking Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call. Larry Wall computerreal A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. Larry Wall shouldeasyfall [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby. Larry Wall escapingpeoplemoving
