Larry Wall Quotes

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

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• I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Like
  • Things
  • Sexy

• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Single
  • Day
  • Dreams

• Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Back

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Way
  • Step
  • British

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • People
  • War
  • Realized

• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  

  Ouida
  • City
  • Gay
  • Lies

• When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Spiritual

• Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Great
  • She

• For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

  

  Aristotle
  • Constitution
  • Citizens
  • Habits

• When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Up
  • Good
  • Small

• The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

  

  Angela Ruggiero
  • Work
  • Done

• Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.

  

  Bob Frank
  • Eliminate
  • Pollute
  • CO2 emmisions

• I write with my past, about the future, for the present.

  

  Eyedea
  • Future
  • Past
  • I Write

• I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.

  

  Derek Murphy
  • People
  • Different
  • Fighting

• Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

  

  Larry Wall