Larry Wall Quotes

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

Larry Wall

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Internet
  • Architecture

• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Cricket
  • Publicity

• Architecture is invention.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architecture
  • Invention

• I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Art
  • History
  • Bad

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Real
  • Think

• The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Year

• When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

  

  David Bolinsky
  • Family
  • Friends

• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Best
  • Joy

• I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

  

  Larry Wall
  • Architecture