You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only … - Larry Wall

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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

Larry Wall

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Moments, Past, Present, Sense, Stories, Time

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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

Grown, Important, Let, Past, Stuff, Worrying Too Much

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

Army, Jobs, Thinking, Tools, Way

Programmers can be lazy.

Lazy, Programmers

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

Allowed, Animation, Anime, Know, Watches

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Keen, Orthogonality, Sake