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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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