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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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