13 Larry Wall Quotes on Technology

Larry Wall quotes on technology

56. Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

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

69. : But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-)

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.

98. The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

135. Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

154. Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.

173. Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

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

255. There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

271. Okay, that's definitely enough hype.

282. How do you type it? With your keyboard.

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?