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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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 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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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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