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Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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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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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 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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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