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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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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Information wants to be useful.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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