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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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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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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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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, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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