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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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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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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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