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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
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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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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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