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“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.” quote by Larry Wall — Download Open image

“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.”

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Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

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I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,

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