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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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 you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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