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

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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