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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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 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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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