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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
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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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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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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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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