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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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