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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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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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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Portability should be the default.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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