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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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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 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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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