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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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