10 Larry Wall Quotes on Risk

Larry Wall quotes on risk

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

61. Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

84. Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

103. I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.

121. I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

127. I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

175. There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

188. I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

214. That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

315. Optimizations always bust things, because all optimizations are, in the long haul, a form of cheating, and cheaters eventually get caught.