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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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