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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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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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