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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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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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