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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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