#eve

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #languages #our #programming #were

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#everything #know #lisp #nothing #programmers

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#day #education #else #every #every day

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#before #burned #child #child prodigy #even

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it! ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#couple #doorway #every #go #hell

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

Every job has a unique situational circumstance. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#every #job #situational #unique

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#angry #best #ever #make #regret

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#direct #direction #had #i #like