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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- Larry Wall
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like
trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
- Larry Wall
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
- Larry Wall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light,
temperature, humidity, and nutrition,
the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
- Larry Wall
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do.
Some of the time it's development, and some of the
time it's just goofing off.
- Larry Wall
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid.
Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
- Larry Wall
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection
of arbitrary power structures.
Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
- Larry Wall
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
- Larry Wall
There is no schedule.
We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done.
Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right
amount of time on Perl 6.
- Larry Wall
The three chief virtues of a programmer are:
Laziness,
Impatience and Hubris.
- Larry Wall
I think computer science, by and large,
is still stuck in the Modern age.
- Larry Wall
Programmers can be lazy.
- Larry Wall
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open.
Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
- Larry Wall
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay
the money to register patents,
but if you're an individual like me,
you can't.
- Larry Wall
I want people to use Perl.
I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and
make my American history.
So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used,
that's great.
- Larry Wall
Younger hackers are hard to classify.
They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are.
We're all over the map.
- Larry Wall
The world has become a larger place.
The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
- Larry Wall
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism.
It came quite early to music and literature,
and a little later to architecture.
And I think it's still coming to computer science.
- Larry Wall
We all agree on the necessity of compromise.
We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
- Larry Wall
I take time to watch anime.
I don't know whether I'm allowed to,
but I do it anyway.
- Larry Wall
Somebody out there is going to do something that's
far more surprising than anything that I would do.
I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
- Larry Wall
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it,
it's probably too serious.
- Larry Wall
I think software patents are a bad idea.
Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
- Larry Wall
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language.
It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts,
and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
- Larry Wall
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art.
But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
- Larry Wall
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord.
The paint is almost all worn off.
It's still running.
- Larry Wall
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
- Larry Wall
Many days I don't write any code at all,
and some days I spend all day writing code.
- Larry Wall
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
- Larry Wall
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of
art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
- Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy
has been quite astonishing,
but gratifying.
I hope they'll do very well with it.
- Larry Wall
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
- Larry Wall
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested
in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
- Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6,
I said it was going to be a community design.
I designed Perl, myself.
It's limited by my own brain power.
So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
- Larry Wall
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- Marianne Williamson
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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