Larry Wall Quotes
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall
Quotes to Explore
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
Isaac Asimov
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The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is — to die.
Oliver Goldsmith
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There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.
Luther Burbank
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We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
Henry David Thoreau
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'Nothing he said indicated that he was that angry. I mean, there’s a difference between angry and murderous. Isn’t there?''Less than you’d think.'
Alastair Reynolds
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.
Scott Adams
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Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
George Cukor
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall