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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.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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