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

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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