Larry Wall Quotes

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

People like to complain.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!