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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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