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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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 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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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