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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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