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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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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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 think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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