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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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 view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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