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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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