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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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