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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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