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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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