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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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