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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Programmers can be lazy.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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