Larry Wall Quotes

The most common characteristic of childhood building toys is that they snap together in one way or another. Technology is constantly shifting, and we should make sure that whatever we build is interoperable and pliable.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I'll take any lightweight.

To play with mobility is what matters.

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

To be honest, I can live anywhere.

Being an actor is a nomadic profession, and I just try to feel at home wherever I am at that moment.

When I was at UCF, I played a lot of different positions, so I don't feel uncomfortable moving around.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.

I'm actually comfortable a little bit out of range as well. I like to pick my times when to come in. I'm very comfortable in the pocket as well.

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

Home is wherever I go.

There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.

In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

If you get basics that can be switched and piece it together, that is so important.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.