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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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