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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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