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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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