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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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