J. J. Wall Quotes

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Portability should be the default.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.

Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

I was born into the studio and all I really know is dance.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I feel I can fit with any player in the world.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.