# Larry Wall Witticisms


By Ben Ramsey

Published on September 2, 2004


I found this [collection of quotes](http://web.archive.org/web/20120718142633/http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz) from Larry Wall, creator of [Perl](http://www.perl.org/). I laughed my head off at a few of them.

One of my favorites was:

> "You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!"