that too much control is just as deadly as too little control. We need control and we need chaos. We need order, and disorder. Simplicity, and complexity. Carefulness, and recklessness. Poise, and panic. Science, and art.
Perl Conference http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html, em 20 de agosto de 1997.
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Larry Wall Frases famosas
Perl was never designed to be perfect. It was designed to evolve, to become more adaptive, as they say.
Larry Wall em entrevista a Marjorie Richardson, em 01.05.1999, publicada em Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394
many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts.
Perl Conference http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html, em 20 de agosto de 1997.
Larry Wall: Frases em inglês
“It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?”
"Perl, the First Postmodern Computer Language", perl.com, 1999-03-09 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/03/pm.html#jump5
Other
"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
Other
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11
“You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.”
[[email protected], 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.”
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“Perl should remain fast and intuitive”
to the extent that it is :-
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“So… Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us."”
We'll get to that.
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"
“Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers…”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998