Larry Wall
  • For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

  • I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  • Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  • Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  • Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.