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Larry Wall Inspirational Quotes (139)

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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Portability should be the default.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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