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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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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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