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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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