8 Larry Wall Quotes on Philosophy

Larry Wall quotes on philosophy

48. Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

67. As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.

89. I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)

97. Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. :-)

161. Beauty? What's that?

213. Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

224. Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

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!