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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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