5 Quotes by Larry Wall about trying

  • Author Larry Wall
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    A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

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    I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager...

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    We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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    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.

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