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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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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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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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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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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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