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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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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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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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