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Wall of Larry Quest

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By now you've all seen The St. Larry Wall Shrine. Well, it could use a fresh coat of gold leaf and shellac. Therefore, we are soliciting Larry-related items to be placed on the shrine. Links to offsite content are good; or if you have small bits of content, such as quotes, you'd like to contribute, that's fine too. Please reply to this Quest with your humble offerings. Thank you! And may St. Larry bless your codings and your debuggings.

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Re: Wall of Larry Quest
by reisinge (Hermit) on Feb 27, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

    I've found couple of Larry's quotes in my collection:

    The important thing is not what you know, but knowing how you learn mo +re. It's not knowing the right answer; it's knowing how to ask the ri +ght questions. -- Larry Wall (https://spu.edu/depts/uc/response/spr2k +/wall.html) Raising different kids requires different approaches, just like comput +er problems do. -- Larry Wall The only way to become smart is to be stupid first. -- Larry Wall I daresay the majority of large companies are still using Perl, even i +f their managers don't know they're using it. ;-) -- Larry Wall (http +s://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/07/14/1349207/the-slashdot-inter +view-with-larry-wall) We are taught to value simplicity and beauty. That's nice. I like circ +les too. However, complexity is not always the enemy. What's importan +t is not simplicity or complexity, but how to bridge the two. -- Larr +y Wall (http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/larry.html) and so far they seem like a great bunch of folks. the sort of folk who + just like to quietly do good in the world :) -- TimToady a.k.a. Larr +y Wall (http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2013-10-17#i_7723873) The greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not +by how much you can coerce others to do that you want. -- Larry Wall +(http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html) Perl is obviously my attempt to help other people to be creative. In m +y little way, I'm sneakily helping people understand a bit more about + the sort of people God likes. -- Larry Wall (http://interviews.slash +dot.org/story/02/09/06/1343222/larry-wall-on-perl-religion-and) It is an unfortunate fact that, human nature being what it is, an ounc +e of cheerleading often beats a pound of rational discussion. -- Larr +y Wall (http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/02/09/06/1343222/larry-w +all-on-perl-religion-and) TimToady thinks in his more arrogant moments that Perl 5 is great beca +use it was designed to allow a CPAN to develop... -- Larry Wall on #p +erl6 (http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2012-11-13#i_6150123) It can get confusing. Hey, I'm confused most of the time. -- Larry Wal +l, Perl Cookbook's foreword The essential thing "in heaven and earth" is ... that there should be +long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has +always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth +living. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensource +s/book/larry.html) Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of pos +sible ways). -- Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution +(http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/larry.html): Larry Wall +(1999)

      Thank you! Those are good. We didn't have any of those already!

Re: Wall of Larry Quest
by roho (Bishop) on Feb 27, 2024 at 05:52 UTC
    My favorite Larry Wall quote:
    "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi." :)

    "It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."

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