21 Larry Wall Quotes on Culture

Larry Wall quotes on culture

6. I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

8. (To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)

13. It's all magic. :-)

44. ... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

47. But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

53. Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)]

65. The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

79. We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)

83. Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

86. P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...

88. I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-)

153. It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.

161. Beauty? What's that?

184. Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

200. : Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR> I'm still working on the Unicode mods.

210. I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)

236. double value; /* or your money back! */ short changed; /* so triple your money back! */

271. Okay, that's definitely enough hype.

277. But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!

281. Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

294. Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail? Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?