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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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