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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.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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