Category: Quotes

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan

Found in a sig

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan

Found in a sig

I expect a good deal of the problem is that you are busy disbelieving a different God than the one I am busy believing in.

Larry Wall from his Slashdot QA

And I think this one helps to highlight why I like Perl so much, the bolded is the reason why I love technology.

And this creativity is intended to be transitive. We are expected to be creative. And we’re expected to help others be creative.

And that leads us back (finally) to the last part of your question, how all this relates to Perl.

Perl is obviously my attempt to help other people be creative. In my little way, I’m sneakily helping people understand a bit more about the sort of people God likes.

‘My greatest teacher once told me,’ said Yasujiro, ‘that a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.’

Chidren of the Mind, Orson Scott Card, Page 248

‘My greatest teacher once told me,’ said Yasujiro, ‘that a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.’

Chidren of the Mind, Orson Scott Card, Page 248

“… wine, women, song …” Londo Molari
Gotta love that line. It speaks of celebration, joy, happiness and it came from one with such misery.

“… wine, women, song …” Londo Molari
Gotta love that line. It speaks of celebration, joy, happiness and it came from one with such misery.

“Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon. Philosophy without action is worthless”.

— Soichiro Honda
[via vsbabu.org:What if Honda made software?]