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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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