“This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.”

— Larry Wall

[199709302338.QAA17037@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit." by Larry Wall?

Larry Wall photo

Larry Wall 294

American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Related quotes

“Guess what? Wheels have been round for a really long time, and anybody who "reinvents" the new wheel is generally considered a crackpot. It turns out that "round" is simply a good form for a wheel to have. It may be boring, but it just tends to roll better than a square, and "hipness" has nothing what-so-ever to do with it.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Attributed
Source: on Desktop_architects: Drivers – below the OS, Fri Aug 3 18:12:57 PDT 2007 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html.

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American motivational speaker

“I guess it's a sequel to our story
From the journey 'tween heaven and hell
With half the time thinking of what might have been
and half thinkin' just as well.
I guess only time will tell.”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

Sequel
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

“A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.”

Charles Sheffield book Between the Strokes of Night

Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 28 (p. 322)

“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched…
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck…

And you'll say to me : "Find it!" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot…”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”

Clare B. Dunkle (1964) American writer

Source: Close Kin

“I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

“I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

I.
2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)

“Some say the Gods are just a myth
but guess Who I've been dancing with…
The Great God Pan is alive!”

Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician

"The Return Of Pan"
Dream Harder (1993)

Related topics