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Bullets Quote by Larry Wall

“...this does not mean that some of us should not…” quote by Larry Wall — Download Open image

“...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.”

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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

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Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

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Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent…

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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the…

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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying…

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Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes…

Richard Pascale

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got…

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“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”

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“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out…

Neal Stephenson

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Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more…

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I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in…

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Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and…

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This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

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