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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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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 random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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