Larry Wall Quotes

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

Larry Wall

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• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm not big on remakes.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Big

• I always have stress.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Always
  • Stress

• Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Art

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Blue

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Work
  • Green
  • Security

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Adversity
  • Thrive

• I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• Guys are so visual.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Guys
  • Visual

• I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was,thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Farmer

• A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

  

  Chris Wedge
  • People

• I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Die
  • Decision
  • Comforting

• Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Heart
  • Fighting

• There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pride
  • Memory
  • Passions

• All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

  

  Larry Wall