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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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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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