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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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