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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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