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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.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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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 write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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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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