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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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 procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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