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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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