Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.