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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
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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