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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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 don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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