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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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