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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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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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 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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