Larry Wall Quotes

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

I love software and I love technology.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Something else has happened with computers.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Technology is fascinating.