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Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.

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Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

Funny, Obviously, Onto, Science, Technology

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Consistently, Essence, Inconsistent, Sanity

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

Arrogant, Language, Territory

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Real, Programmers, Perl, Prefer, Visually

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

Appreciate, Handle, Know, People, Read, Would Be

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.

Moments, Past, Present, Sense, Stories, Time

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Designer, Irrationalities, Language, Thinking

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

Entirely, Important, Till, Today, Tomorrow

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Everything, Needs, Reinventing, Serious

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.

Different, Hands, Know, Littles, Pots, Simultaneously

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

Company, Person, Running, Sort, Want

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Computer, Discourse, Irrational, Needs, Teach

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

Honda, Paint, Running

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Ada, Computer, Former, Sop

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Evil, Greater, Greater Good, Potential, Right

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

1024, Clue, Hash, Should, Take

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

Historically, Precluded, Reinvention, Unix, Wheels

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

Kvetching, Perl

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

Away, Idea, Ideas, Love You, Song, Variant

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Historical, Brain, Way, Quantum

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