Larry Wall Quotes
: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
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Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work.
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There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
