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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. ~ Larry Wall
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This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it. ~ Larry Wall
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place. ~ Larry Wall
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially. ~ Larry Wall
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is ~ Larry Wall
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious. ~ Larry Wall
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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally ... ~ Larry Wall
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. ~ Larry Wall
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. ~ Larry Wall
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. ~ Larry Wall
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl . ~ Larry Wall
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst. ~ Larry Wall
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. ~ Larry Wall
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The overall intent is to make everyone sufficiently happy (or in some cases, insufficiently unhappy). ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. ~ Larry Wall
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ~ Larry Wall
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. ~ Larry Wall
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. ~ Larry Wall
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. ~ Larry Wall
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing. ~ Larry Wall
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. ~ Larry Wall
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. ~ Larry Wall
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. ~ Larry Wall
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. ~ Larry Wall
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. ~ Larry Wall
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read. ~ Larry Wall
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Just don't create a file called. ~ Larry Wall
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. ~ Larry Wall
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. ~ Larry Wall
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? ~ Larry Wall
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ~ Larry Wall
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. ~ Larry Wall
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable. ~ Larry Wall
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable. ~ Larry Wall
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ~ Larry Wall
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? ~ Larry Wall
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words. ~ Larry Wall
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you. ~ Larry Wall
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. ~ Larry Wall
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Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard. ~ Larry Wall
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. ~ Larry Wall
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. ~ Larry Wall
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses. ~ Larry Wall
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Even the White House has a press agent. ~ Larry Wall
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out. ~ Larry Wall
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. ~ Larry Wall
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ~ Larry Wall
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency. ~ Larry Wall
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them. ~ Larry Wall
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil. ~ Larry Wall
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. ~ Larry Wall
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. ~ Larry Wall
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. ~ Larry Wall
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. ~ Larry Wall
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory ... ~ Larry Wall
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. ~ Larry Wall
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something ... hmm ... yes ... I've got it ... there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. ~ Larry Wall
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. ~ Larry Wall
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. ~ Larry Wall
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ~ Larry Wall
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise. ~ Larry Wall
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. ~ Larry Wall
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). ~ Larry Wall
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? ~ Larry Wall
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer. ~ Larry Wall
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I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night. ~ Larry Wall
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine? ~ Larry Wall
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is ... ~ Larry Wall
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. ~ Larry Wall
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. ~ Larry Wall
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. ~ Larry Wall
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. ~ Larry Wall
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Information wants to be useful. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? ~ Larry Wall
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming. ~ Larry Wall
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. ~ Larry Wall
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. ~ Larry Wall
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over. ~ Larry Wall
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions. ~ Larry Wall
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. ~ Larry Wall
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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. ~ Larry Wall
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room. ~ Larry Wall
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Portability should be the default. ~ Larry Wall
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science! ~ Larry Wall
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Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. ~ Larry Wall
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. ~ Larry Wall
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon. ~ Larry Wall
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