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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Portability should be the default.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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