Larry Wall Quotes
I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Being evil is easy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
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One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.
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You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.
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I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.
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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
