Larry Wall on Time
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Larry Wall, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Larry Wall and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Larry Wall, entry #80478: "Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time."
Attributed to Larry Wall, entry #135049: "I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?"
10 Quotes by Larry Wall on Time
"Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time."
"I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?"
"It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me..."
"The court finds everyone to be in contempt , and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor."
"You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so."
"I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days Gee, it took me about eleven years."
"As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so."
"Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell."
"Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't."
"When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?"