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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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