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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
Redundant
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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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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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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