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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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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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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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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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