Larry Wall
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"Larry Wall" is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.

Jake gets a pick here, and that results in a touchdown. [Nick] Binks gets the pick over here, and we score after that. I think that's the way it is in high school football, that turnover deal.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Beauty? What's that?

The heart and never-say-die attitude was key. The guys just battled and battled. We've got a lot of guys going both ways, had some key injuries the week before, but a lot of guys stepped up and that's what it's all about.

You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.