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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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