Famous Quotes

"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."

Larry Wall on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Larry Wall

• "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."

• "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 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."

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