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
“Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.”
[[email protected], 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
final words of the video
Public Talks, Larry Wall Speaks at Google (2008)
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11
“tt>if (instr(buf, sys_errlist[ errno])) /* you don't see this */</tt”
eval.c.
Source code, Other files
“You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998