#work

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#best #effort #ever #had #i

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not? ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#day #elasticity #friend #get #had

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#am #easily #get #i #i always

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

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ↗

— Larry Wall

#best #free #i #i think #likely

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6. ↗

— Larry Wall

#done #fine #get #perl #plan

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. ↗

— Larry Wall

#art #artist #good #serve #supposed

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#constantly #details #find #food #found

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#get #i #know #little #privilege