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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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