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• Rumour has it that Larry Wall, author of readnews, is a finalist in the race for the Nobel Peace Prize for his invention of the kill file.
• Quote #356 "Larry Wall should be shot. Along with Bill Joy and Eric Allman.
  -- Daniel Finster, comp.lang.lisp "Why, just because you guys frittered away a 20-year headstart?...
• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
  -- Larry Wall...
• When you just can't take it anymore, rm -rf
• kill file n. [Usenet; very common] (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• I'll say it again for the logic impaired. -- Larry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
• It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. -- Larry Wall
• kill file: [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• I have just issued a "rm -rf *" on your behalf to a critical directory on a remote system of my own choosing.