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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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LA
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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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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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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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