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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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