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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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