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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid 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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Portability should be the default.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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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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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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