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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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