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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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