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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Portability should be the default.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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