Larry Wall Quotes

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.