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Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

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I believe that structure is a product, not a process.

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The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

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Excuse me while I barf in Larry Wall's general direction.

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If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

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Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

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The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

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If you think this year is "97", you are not "year 2000 compliant".

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1,3,7-trimethylxanthine – a basic ingredient in quality software.

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If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

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Intellectual laziness is punishable by brain death. It is a natural law.

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

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Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

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This is your brain. This is Perl. This is your brain on Perl. Any questions?

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Like so many other things in life, you rarely get only what you optimize for.

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Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

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Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

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I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

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Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

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Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

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C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

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Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

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If the syntax is good enough for the information, it should be good enough for the meta-information.

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The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

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The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

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Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

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… so as long as you do The Right Thing and forget how you would do it in C, you should be able to get a good grip on this.

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God grant me serenity to accept the code I cannot change, courage to change the code I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

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"Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

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Note that ANSI standards also cost way too much compared to toilet paper, and they're pretty bad quality as toilet paper goes, too.

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