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

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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