I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
Larry WallEven if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
Larry WallWe can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry WallI'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
Larry WallA lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
Larry Wall