Quotes by Canadian authors

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"Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary"

Larry Wall, Author

"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore"

Larry Wall, Author

"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe"

Larry Wall, Author

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't"

Larry Wall, Author

"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious"

Larry Wall, Author

"I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age"

Larry Wall, Author

Sarah McLachlan

"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6"

Larry Wall, Author

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science"

Larry Wall, Author

Lester B. Pearson

"We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Sarah McLachlan

"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Sarah McLachlan

"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Sarah McLachlan

"I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Sarah McLachlan

"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Sarah McLachlan

"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Lester B. Pearson

"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid"

Larry Wall, Author

"Hubris itself will not let you be an artist"

Larry Wall, Author

Jim Carrey

"My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

Lester B. Pearson

"As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

Lester B. Pearson

"As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

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