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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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