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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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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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