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Larry Wall Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 27, 1954

Topics

Place More First Out Anything Going

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

Robert Scoble

People World Internet Interesting

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich Care Take Care Learn Take Dad

I'm guilty of being perceived as having narrow taste. I went after the artists that I thought were important - Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and stuff.

Robert Hilburn

Thought Guilty Important Taste Stuff

Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.

Maureen Chiquet

Fear Business Responsibility Job

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

Relationship Grief Suffering Person

'Deadstar' has no boundaries.

Smokepurpp

Boundaries No Boundaries

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

Maryanne Wolf

Culture Will More Would Approach

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Work Happy People Literature Doing

I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

Dolores O'Riordan

Women Morning Hate Hair Forward Pig

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

Diane Greene

Business Step Customer Talking Talk

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

Donna Karan

Attitude Age Clothes You Numbers

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

Job Start Book Think Thinking Know