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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
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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