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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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