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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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