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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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