Perl Quotes

• What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• What you see is what you get.

  Flip Wilson

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.

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• Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

  Larry Wall

  Giving, Way, Computer

  Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.702, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

  Erik Naggum

  Running, World, Bills

  "Perl embedded in emacs". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 10, 1998.

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• What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

  Larry Wall

  Wall, People, Sound

  Usenet article, 1992.

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• I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

  Larry Wall

  Trying, Roles, Stubborn

  Usenet article <20031215021442.GA4012@wall.org>, groups.google.com. December 15, 2003.

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• Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Nice, Snakes, House

  "Fire Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2008.

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• Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

  Larry Wall

  Python, People, Wanted

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• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  Larry Wall

  Order, Years, Court

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

  Larry Wall

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Computer

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• Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

  Larry Wall

  Way, Computer, Slogans

  Usenet article, 1990.

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• The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

  Erik Naggum

  Believe, Laziness, Ultimate

  Re: Lisp as glue language? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2000.

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• I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.

  Erik Naggum

  New York, Cities, Names

  Re: How is perl braindamaged? (was Re: Is LISP dying?) (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 28, 1999.

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• Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

  Bruce Eckel

  Python, Lines, Noise

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• I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

  Larry Wall

  People, Way, Helping

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

  Larry Wall

  Cat, Night, Years

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Army, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

  Larry Wall

  Ideas, Special, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes his work from industry peers when it comes to market timing. This book demonstrates how traders can benefit from his insight, using the studies to identify the exhaustion of established trends or the onset of new ones. Whether you're fundamentally or technically inclined, Perl's DeMark Indicators is an invaluable trading resource.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Real, Book, Years

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• Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Writing, Criticism

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• What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

  Erik Naggum

  Successful, Unix, Admire

  "Using Lisp to Call another program in linux?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 11, 2002.

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• The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

  Larry Wall

  Mean, Feel Better, Use

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• Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

  Larry Wall

  Ugly, Derivatives, Computer

  Usenet article, 1992.

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