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Larry Wall

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Not every great thinker makes it into the history books, but Larry Wall's words speak for themselves. Their thinking spans from Technology to Science, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Larry Wall, each offering a different angle on Technology, Science, Relationship, Positive, and Hope. Readers often gravitate to this one: "For me, writing is a love-hate relationship."

“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”

— Larry Wall

Relationship

All 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.”

— Larry Wall

Hope

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

— Larry Wall

Death

“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

Design

“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”

— Larry Wall

Relationship

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

— Larry Wall

Science

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

— Larry Wall

Technology

“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

Positive

“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

Architecture