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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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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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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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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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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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