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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'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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 and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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