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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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