Larry Wall Quotes

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

As technologists, we all write code.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I was a programmer.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.