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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 court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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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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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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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