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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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