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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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