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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Information wants to be useful.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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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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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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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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