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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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