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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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