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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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