Larry Wall

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. ↗

— Larry Wall

#love-hate relationship #me #relationship #writing

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ↗

— Larry Wall

#any #assembly #code #language #programmers

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

— Larry Wall

#array #club #death #doing #like

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. ↗

— Larry Wall

#designed #expressive #language #learned #like

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ↗

— Larry Wall

#compromise #just #necessary #necessity

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ↗

— Larry Wall

#hubris #itself #will #you

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. ↗

— Larry Wall

#company #i #i am #person #run

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

— Larry Wall

#almost #drive #honda #i #off

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

— Larry Wall

#anime #anyway #i #i do #know

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

— Larry Wall

#hubris #impatience #laziness #programmer #three