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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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