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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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