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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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 procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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