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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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