Larry Wall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
-
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
-
I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
-
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
-
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
-
I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
-
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
-
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
-
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
-
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
-
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
-
I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
-
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
-
Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
-
Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differentness is exploited to the limit-is used as subject matter, even. Each poet develops an elaborate, 'personalized', bureaucratized machinery of effect; refine your singularities is everybody’s maxim.
-
The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
-
My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
-
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
-
I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'
-
As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
