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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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