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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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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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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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