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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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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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