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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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