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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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