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• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
• Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
• Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
• Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
• What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
• It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
• Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
• A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
• The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has…
• The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything…
• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

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