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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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