Larry Wall Quotes

Canadian - Businessman | September 27, 1954 -

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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TechnologyDeathSomeoneDoingOver

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

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LazinessThreeHubrisChiefVirtues

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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TechnologyLanguageWriteRealCode

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

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MapOldHardOverJustHackers

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

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RelationshipMeWritingLove-Hate

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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YouArtistWillHubrisItself

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

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SmartStupidEnoughRealizeAlways

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

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AgeScienceThinkComputer Science

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

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PositiveTechnologyHistoryGreat

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

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FunHave FunDoingYouSeriousAny

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.

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PlaceMoreFirstOutAnythingGoing

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

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WorkGoodArtYouArtistServe

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