Larry Wall Quotes

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.