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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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