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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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 want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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