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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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