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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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