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- We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
- I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
- For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
- The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
- We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our…
- That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
- The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
- It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled,…
- Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
- Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
- Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
- 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…
- There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we…
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- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman