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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
Computer Scientist
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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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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