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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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