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
“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
[[email protected], 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“tt>/* And you'll never guess what the dog had *//* in its mouth… */</tt”
Source code, <code>stab.c</code>
“There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.”
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 10
“I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;</tt”
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.”
[[email protected], 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994
“Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.”
[[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
[[email protected], 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.”
[[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
In the perl man page regarding chroot(2).
Documentation
“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”
Amazon.com Interview: Larry Wall http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=7137.
Other
“Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.”
"Apocalypse 5: Regular Expressions", perl.com, 2001-06-04 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html?page=6
Other
Variante: … I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.