"Perl programming is an empirical science!"

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Larry Wall

#Programming Quotes

“Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.”
“There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.”
“Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?”
“...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.”
“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2012
“Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.”
“I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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