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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.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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