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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Omniscience
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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