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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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 think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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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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Portability should be the default.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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