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Larry Wall Inspirational Quotes (139)

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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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