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Easy things should be easy, a...

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

If someone stinks, view it as...

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I've decided I don't want to ...

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

People get annoyed when you t...

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

You can’t change the past. Yo...

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I'm a great believer in visua...

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Most of you are familiar with...

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

When they first built the Uni...

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

What is the sound of Perl? Is...

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Larry Wall 222 quotes

So many computer languages tr...

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

It's easy to solve the haltin...

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Well, you know, Hubbard had a...

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Maybe we should take a clue f...

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

What you'll need most is cour...

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Life gets boring, someone inv...

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I'm afraid my gut level react...

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

It is easier to port a shell ...

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

If you're going to define a s...

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

As someone pointed out, you c...

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

While I have historically bee...

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....