Larry Wall Quotes

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.

Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

When you stop for months and you come back, you try everything, and I worked so hard to get back but then you do it again and again and again. You disappoint yourself and other people at the club, the manager, everybody. You don't know how to get it right.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.