Larry Wall Quotes

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.

One of the main reasons that we have made so much progress in so many technological areas in recent years is that many people care about those areas.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing is how genius people are. You'll be thinking about some area that needs improving, and then someone just comes in and gives you that little bit of energy. Free online education doesn't solve everything, but you open the window and you build on each other.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

There's something really nice about having a group of people that you're committed to, that you work with and that there's a future in it. Film is like a party, and then it's over, whereas this hopefully feels like a family.