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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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