Larry Wall Quotes
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.
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It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
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It's definitely going to go well beyond one night.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
