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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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