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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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