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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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