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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 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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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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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