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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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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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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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