Larry Wall Quotes
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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When one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.
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I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
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'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result
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Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
