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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Larry Wall

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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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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.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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