Larry Wall Quotes

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Going to war is an easy decision.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Mo' money, mo' problems.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Economics is not an exact science.

What have you learned from those times when life was easy?

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Pole dancing really isn't as easy as it looks.

And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again