"Unix is like a toll road on which……" — Larry Wall
"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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- 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.
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- Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
- A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
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- We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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