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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Portability should be the default.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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 don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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