Larry Wall Quotes

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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Three, Laziness, Chief

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Technology, Death, Someone

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Technology, Real, Write

Programmers can be lazy.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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Hard, Old, Hackers

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Hope, Philosophy, Quite

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Compromise, Necessary, Agree

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Person, Run, Company

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Off, Almost, Drive

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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Time, Whether, Watch

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Smart, Stupid, Enough

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Age, Science, Modern

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Work, Best, Free

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Bad, Idea, Software

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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Time, Off, Whatever

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Once, Interested, Satisfied

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Fun, Serious, While

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Money, Individual, Pay

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Writing, Write, Days

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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Good, Art, Artist

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Law, Light, Conditions

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Problems, Solve, Cultural

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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Become, Place, Universe

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: March 10, 1949

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