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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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