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01Undated

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall / quote

02Undated

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

Larry Wall / quote

03Undated

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.

Larry Wall / quote

04Undated

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Larry Wall / quote

05Undated

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

Larry Wall / quote

06Undated

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall / quote

07Undated

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Larry Wall / quote

08Undated

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Larry Wall / quote