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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Information wants to be useful.
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