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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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