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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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