Larry Wall Quotes

“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.”

“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am me. And if by chance we find each other, it will be beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”

“National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.”

“The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.”

“We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.”

“George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.”

“You have limited time on this planet. Convert each moment into Perl by spreading happiness. Giving is much more fulfilling than taking.”

“There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.”

“I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.”

“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”