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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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