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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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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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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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