top of page
"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
Old,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Old quotes

"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."

"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

"When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty."
Explore more quotes by Larry Wall

"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."

"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."

"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."

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."

"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
bottom of page