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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
Computer Scientist
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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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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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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