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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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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 problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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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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