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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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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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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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