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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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