A biography for Larry Wallhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.”
“I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.”
“I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.”
“Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.”
“I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.”
“If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.”
“Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.”
“I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.”
“One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.”
“The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.”
“We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.”
“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”
“We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.”
“Programmers can be lazy.”
“Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.”