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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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