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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
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Larry Arnold Wall
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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 Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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