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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Portability should be the default.
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