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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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