J. J. Wall Quotes
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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.
Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again.
The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.
Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.
It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.
A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.
Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.
You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.
People were crazy with pain and secrets.
Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.
Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.
Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank’s money and you’re just another one of their creditors.
What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.
He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.
Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.
We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!
Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.
I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.
He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, “bring it on.
How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.
Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?
Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world.
The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.