Larry Wall Quotes
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types-in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
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We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types-in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
