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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
Engineer
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Programmer
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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