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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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