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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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