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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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 whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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