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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Portability should be the default.
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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 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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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