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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.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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