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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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