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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
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Omniscience
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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