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
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. – Larry Wall
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. – Larry Wall
I think operating systems work best if they’re free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. – 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
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
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It’s still running. – 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 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. – 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
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. – Larry Wall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. – Larry Wall
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. – Larry Wall
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. – Larry Wall
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. – Larry Wall
