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I've had to learn kind of sen...

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I want to see people using Pe...

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing bal...

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Perl is designed to give you ...

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I was raised a musician and I...

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

You can never entirely stop b...

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Don't wear rollerskates to a ...

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

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

If you write something wrong ...

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

There's a saying in the softw...

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

Larry Wall 222 quotes

You know, I've got my hands i...

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Well, coffee is my drug of ch...

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I'm not too concerned about t...

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I just hope I'm never promote...

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

There's many scripting langua...

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Natural languages generally a...

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Never put off till tomorrow w...

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of ma?ana, you know, [singing] ma?ana, ma?ana, I love you, ma?ana, you're always a day away.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Computer programming is reall...

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Human languages tend to be mu...

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

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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....