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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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