Larry Wall Quotes

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Being Uber means being efficient.

We need to execute fewer things better.

I have four jackets, five pants, whatever, that are all the same. If you see U2 in concert, they wear the same thing every night. They just got a bunch of them. Albert Einstein used to wear brown suits every day. Why waste brainpower on something that is trivial?

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.