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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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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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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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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Programmers can be lazy.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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 purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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