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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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