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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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