#ear

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ↗

— Larry Wall

#array #club #death #doing #like

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. ↗

— Larry Wall

#designed #expressive #language #learned #like

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

#architecture #came #coming #computer #computer science

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#been #best #clergyman #earnest #effect

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#changes #clear #conception #function #mind

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#intensified #nuclear #nuclear weapons #our #simply

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#always #both #helped #i #i think

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#film #internet #just #kids #learn

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#become #every #face #had #handed

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#first #likely #live #men #more