Famous quotes by Authors

"If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place"

Larry Wall, Author

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

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

"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

"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

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing"

Bret Harte, Author

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing"

Bret Harte, Author

"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them!"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

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