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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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