Larry Wall Quotes

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.

We must make working life more human.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.'

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

For my career, I wouldn't go racing if I didn't enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.