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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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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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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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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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