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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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