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
“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */</tt”
cmd.c.
Source code, Other files
“If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory…”
[[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble…”
[[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy…”
[[email protected], 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to.”
That, and the Underwood typewriter...
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998