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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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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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