Larry Wall Quotes

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

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• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • American
  • Government
  • Cloud

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

  

  Walter Duranty
  • Fire
  • Labor
  • Hot

• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Connections

• I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Value
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Model
  • Beauty

• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Best
  • Accept

• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Football
  • Things
  • Games

• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Men
  • Women
  • High

• The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seemed to have known a better day.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Long
  • Cold
  • Wind

• Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Positive
  • Emotional
  • Identity

• The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• 'The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.'

  

  Marc Bloch

• Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • School
  • Rock

• One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Trying
  • Political

• There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Cool
  • Painting
  • Magic

• On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • High
  • Success
  • Team

• Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

  

  Larry Wall