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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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