Larry Wall Quotes

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

One thing is for sure. The Drive-By Media is populated with people who are not just biased and bigoted and prejudicial. It's obvious that they are also the victims of an absolutely pathetic education system.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

The unconscious is structured like a language.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

Trump is loose and obvious with his facial expressions. You could watch Donald Trump in a debate and not hear any of the words and you'll still get a sense for when he's pleased, when he's angry and when he's not.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.