Larry Wall Quotes

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

The used key is always bright.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go.

Everything that I make I use.

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.