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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
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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 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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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