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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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