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Larry Wall
Canadian
Businessman
Born:
Sep 27
,
1954
Artist
Perl
Think
Time
Work
You
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
Law
Light
Will
Damn
Nutrition
Pleases
States
Harvard
Temperature
Well
Conditions
Controlled
Organism
Humidity
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
Technology
Language
Write
Real
Any
Assembly
Code
Programmers
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall
How
Anymore
Realize
Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall
Lazy
Programmers
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry Wall
Somebody
First
Out
Would
Web
Something
More
First Place
Surprised
Surprising
Than
Going
Anything
Place
Far
Whole
Thing
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.
Larry Wall
Myself
Power
Own
Community
Design
My Own
Development
Announced
Perl
Limited
Said
Brain
Brain Power
Going
Wanted
Designed
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
Death
Technology
Club
Someone
Over
Like
Array
Doing
Linear
Trying
Loaded
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
Larry Wall
Me
Relationship
Writing
Love-Hate
Love-Hate Relationship
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
Larry Wall
Run
Sort
Am
Person
Wants
Who
Company
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
Drive
Worn
Running
Almost
Almost All
Still
Off
Accord
Paint
Honda
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
Smart
Stupid
Enough
About
Talked
Always
Becoming
Been
Just
Realize
Fortunately
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Larry Wall
Science
Age
Computer Science
Think
Computer
Stuck
Still
Modern
Modern Age
Large
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
Work
Best
Free
Think
Systems
More
Open
Proprietary
Particular
Likely
Operating
Operating Systems
Applications
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall
Positive
Great
History
Technology
People
World
Whatever
Software
Give
Takes
Make
Perl
Get
American
Want
American History
Ingredient
Use
Used
Away
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
Larry Wall
Satisfied
Too
Everything
Once
Never
Because
Always
Been
Want
Interested
Many
Things
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
You
Have Fun
Ideology
Too
Doing
Any
While
Fun
Serious
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.
Larry Wall
Me
You
Money
Pay
Corporation
Individual
Like
Afford
Patents
Register
Large
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Larry Wall
People
Power
Different Kinds
Rejection
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Kinds
Structures
Ideas
Very
Different
Sensitive
Different People
Basic
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.
Larry Wall
Music
Science
Architecture
Computer Science
Think
Later
Computer
Reaction
Still
Coming
Came
Quite
Literature
Against
Modernism
Little
Early
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall
Art
Myself
Good
Engineering
Think
Some
Cultural
Modern
Artist
Good Art
Necessary
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Larry Wall
Problems
Our
Solve
Like
Cultural
Really
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall
Work
Art
Good
You
Allow
Supposed
Artist
Serve
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Larry Wall
Old
Diverse
Classify
Hackers
Over
Just
Younger
Hard
Map
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