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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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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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