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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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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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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 trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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