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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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