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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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