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Larry Wall Inspirational Quotes (139)

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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Information wants to be useful.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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