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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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