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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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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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