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

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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