Top 34 Quotes by Larry Wall

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.

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

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

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.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

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

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

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.