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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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