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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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 random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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