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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Information wants to be useful.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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