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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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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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