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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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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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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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