Larry Wall Quotes

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

I find people confusing.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

I am known predominantly for dealing with people's relationships.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.