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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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