Larry Wall Quotes

We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/

P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...

There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]

It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...

You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.

Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.

I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.

The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

<code>echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.</code>

If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!