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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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