Fortune Quote #1429

You cannot by reasoning correct a man of ill opinion which by reasoning he
never acquired. -- Bacon

Fortune Quote #1428

> How would you disambiguate these situations? By shooting the person who
did the latter. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1427

The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it,
and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been
rethunk yet. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1426

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be
right. :-) -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1425

'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses. -- Larry
Wall

Fortune Quote #1424

Depends on how you define "always". :-) -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1423

I surely do hope that's a syntax error. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1422

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says "optimize
the heck out of this routine", and your definition of heck would be a
parameter to the optimizer. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1421

There's certainly precedent for that already too. (Not claiming it's
*good* precedent, mind you. :-) -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1420

The following two statements are usually both true: * There's not enough
documentation. * There's too much documentation. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1419

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians
notwithstanding. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1418

True, it returns "" for false, but "" is an even more interesting number
than 0. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1417

I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very
interesting numbers. :-) -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1416

Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like
English did. Er, *as* English did.... -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1415

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and
bigotry at worst. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1414

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.
-- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1413

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
-- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1412

str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */ s = (unsigned
char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */ -- Larry Wall, in
`util.c' from the Perl source code

Fortune Quote #1411

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-) --
Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1410

OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will
attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you... -- Larry
Wall, in `Configure' from the Perl distribution

Fortune Quote #1409

Lispers are among the best grads of the
Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was
that sufficiently incendiary? :-)] -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1408

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-) --
Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1407

Just don't create a file called -rf. :-) -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1406

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved
with melting snowballs. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #1405

double value; /* or your money back! */ short
changed; /* so triple your money back! */ -- Larry
Wall in cons.c from the Perl source code

Fortune Quote #1404

Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
course, living in a state of sin. -- John Von Neumann

Fortune Quote #1403

Life begins when you can spend your spare time programming instead of
watching television. -- Cal Keegan

Fortune Quote #1402

You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra

Fortune Quote #1401

When it's dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune Quote #1400

"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five
hundred." -- The Mahabharata.