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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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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.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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