Larry Wall Quotes

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

It's a funny old world.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.