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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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 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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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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