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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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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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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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