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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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