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
or the gambol
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U. S.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.”
[[email protected], 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003
“That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“tt>double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */</tt”
Source code, <code>cons.c</code>
“Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.”
[6vhq4r%[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality…”
[[email protected], 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“tt>#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */</tt”
Source code, <code>perl.c</code>
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997