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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Portability should be the default.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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