Zitat des Tages von Larry Wall:
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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.
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.
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.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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.
Programmers can be lazy.
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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.
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.
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.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.