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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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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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