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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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