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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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