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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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