Larry Wall Quotes

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

There's just something sexy about feeling strong.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

I love Thieves, it is therapeutic, if you're not feeling well. It has a very strong scent but is quite wonderful. I also use lavender. Peppermint, when my stomach is upset.

we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.