Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
Message-ID &lt;20050516005559.GC26184@wall.org&gt; http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/21259, to perl6-language mailing-list. <br class="br">Other
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
Message-ID &lt;20050516005559.GC26184@wall.org&gt; http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/21259, to perl6-language mailing-list. <br class="br">Other
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124
Context: God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Swan Peak
“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Frequently quoted on social media, but was not written by Rumi in Persian.
Misattributed
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 4: 1921