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Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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 don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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